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A DEPARTMENT OF FOUR SWORN OFFICERS, LED BY A TOWN MARSHAL · ITS FOUNDING AND ITS MARSHALS BEFORE THE PRESENT ONE NOT IN THE RECORD REACHED
Osceola polices itself, small: the Osceola Police Department, on the town's official page, "has 4 sworn law enforcement officers, one being the Town Marshal," responsible for the routine police functions of the town, working two shifts, sometimes staggered, and assisting and assisted by the neighboring departments. The head's title is the old Indiana one — Town Marshal, not chief of police — and the marshal in office as of November 11, 2026, is Thomas Hixon, named on the department's own page. The department sits with the Town Hall at 850 Lincolnway West (office 574-674-8685). State compensation records reached show rank-and-file officers in the town's pay across recent years — a part-time officer, Fred Fowler, appears in the Gateway-republished data for 2020–2024 — but no official source reached gives the department's founding or organization date, any marshal before Hixon, or Hixon's own start date, and no dated departmental milestones (a station building, a K-9 unit, a reorganization) appear in the official or departmental record searched. That whole earlier course is carried as GAP-OSGOV-3, with its settlers: the town's minute books and salary ordinances, and the Schedules of Officials in the State Board of Accounts' audits of the town, which name the marshal in audit years as they name the clerk. This section prints the department as the record gives it in November 2026 and does not backfill a history the paper does not carry.
Sources:
- Town of Osceola, Police Department page (osceola.in.gov/departments), crawled November 11, 2026: the four sworn officers, the two shifts, Marshal Thomas Hixon.
- Town of Osceola, homepage, crawled November 11, 2026: the department's address and office number.
- GovSalaries (Indiana Gateway compensation republished): Fred Fowler, part-time police, Osceola Civil Town, 2020–2024 — rank-and-file continuity only.