Police: a town department in the Municipal Building, Chief Matthew Schalliol

THE DEPARTMENT AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 2026 · THE CHIEF'S LINE ANCHORED 2005–2026

Walkerton keeps its own police department, officed in the Municipal Building with its entrance on Illinois Street, and dispatched around the clock at 574-586-3511 — the same number that takes the town's fire, ambulance, and after-hours utility calls. The chief in November 2026 is Matthew Schalliol — "Matt" Schalliol in the town's own announcements — quoted as Walkerton Police Chief in May 2024, when the department took up an electric-vehicle grant, and standing in April 2025 at the unveiling of the region's first all-electric police vehicle; the State's Gateway compensation data for 2025 likewise carries Matthew Schalliol as the town's Police Chief. The line behind him is anchored at two points. In April 2005 the chief was Richard Bliley, then twenty-seven years an officer — a month in which the department's own extended family was in the county's news, as the wars and people passes carry. And Charles Kulp, who appears in this section again as Lincoln Township's trustee, served as the department's assistant chief from 2016 to 2024 under the varying titles the Gateway data gives the post, and as a police officer in 2025 — a small-town doubling of offices that is the township entry's to note as well. The department's size is stated in the town's older web copy at eighteen officers and eight dispatchers patrolling, in that copy's words, a "1.7 square mile" town; the copy is dated by its own figures — the 2010 census measured the town at some 1.96 square miles — and this section prints the strength as the town's older claim, not as a 2026 count. Walkerton has no separate town marshal in the record reached: the department is a chief's department, and the older Indiana marshal's office does not appear in the town's own pages or the State's schedules reached.

Sources:

1. Town of Walkerton (walkerton.in), police and fire pages: the department's seat in the Municipal Building, the Illinois Street entrance, and the 24-hour dispatch number 574-586-3511; the older department copy carrying the eighteen-officer and 1.7-square-mile figures, printed with its date caution.
2. News reports of the department's electric-vehicle grant (May 2, 2024) and of the all-electric patrol vehicle unveiling (Town Crier Wire, April 16, 2025): Chief Matt Schalliol, quoted and photographed in office.
3. Indiana Gateway employee compensation data for 2025, as republished: Matthew Schalliol, Police Chief, Walkerton Civil Town; Charles Kulp's assistant-chief years, 2016–2024, and officer listing, 2025.
4. South Bend Tribune (April 2005), via Police1: Chief Richard Bliley.
5. U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 census: the town's area, some 1.96 square miles — the variance against the town page's 1.7, printed whole.