The marshal's department — from the ordinance book to Marshal Croymans

1991–2026 · TOWN MARSHAL

The town polices itself with a marshal and deputies, seated at Town Hall. The ordinance record opens the modern course: Town Code Chapter 98, with its fee schedule for "police, case, or other Marshal's Department reports" ($5 per copy), traces to Ordinance 819 of 17 December 1991, and a Cumulative Non-Reverting Law Enforcement Training Fund stands from 1996. The named course runs on the council minutes: Marshal Tom Baker was pressing the Council in January 2011 to fund an additional full-time officer, half from the Marshal's Department budget; by July 2015 the marshal's seat was held by Jeff Roseboom, styled Public Safety Director in his reports; on 21 July 2020 the Council appointed David Combs Town Marshal, 4–0. Through 2021 the minutes style the department's working leadership "Chief Tom Baker" with "Assistant Chief Croymans" presenting reports and buying the evidence-room recording system — the title variance between the marshal's appointment record and the department's chief-styled minutes is printed as it stands, not harmonized — and the September 2021 minutes ask an ordinance raising deputy marshals from ten to thirteen. The state salary record then carries the succession in payroll terms: Richard B. Croymans, Chief Deputy Marshal 2021–2023, Marshal in the 2024 records; the council minutes of May through August 2024 seat "Marshal Croymans" at the table. Marshal Richard Croymans holds the seat as of the latest record (2024 minutes and salary records; the seat as of November 2026 is printed at that as-of). The department sits at Town Hall, 124 East Michigan Street, telephone (574) 654-3544.

Sources:

1. Town Code, ch. 51/98 excerpts and ordinance lines (amLegal library): Ordinance 819 (1991); training fund (1996).
2. Town Council minutes: 11 Jan 2011 (Marshal Baker); 28 Jul 2015 (Marshal Jeff Roseboom, Public Safety Director); 21 Jul 2020 (David Combs appointed Town Marshal); 7 Sept and 7 Dec 2021 (Chief Baker; Assistant Chief Croymans; the deputy-marshal ordinance ask); 21 May and 6 Aug 2024 (Marshal Croymans).
3. Indiana Gateway salary records via govsalaries.com: Richard Croymans B — Chief Deputy Marshal, New Carlisle Civil Town, 2021–2023; Marshal, 2024–2025.