Plaquemine Police Department
Orian Gulotta - Chief of Police
Duties: The Plaquemine Police Department handles all law enforcement issues within the city limits of Plaquemine. This includes traffic control and issuing traffic tickets, crime prevention, and criminal investigations and arrests. The Police Department actively works with residents to help them prevent crime by providing in home security checks and recommendations, working with neighborhood groups to establish Neighborhood Watch groups, providing Rape Aggression Defense training for women, and providing in-school training for children on topics such as bike safety, drug awareness, how to handle strangers who approach them, and other topics. In addition, the Department provides tours of the police station for youth groups, provides a police escort for St. John High games, sponsors Youth Day and Santa at the Police Station events each year, and provides other community services.
Leadership: The Plaquemine Police Department is under the command of Police Chief Orian Gulotta, who is an elected official. He is assisted by Administrator Mike Little, Captains Kenny Payne and Steve Bezet, and Office Administrator Shantell Atkins.
The staff includes 16 patrol officers, four detectives, one juvenile officer, two narcotics investigators, four part-time officers, four dispatchers, three office workers, and a part time flotilla officer. The City’s Bike Patrol includes a certified Bike Patrol instructor and three certified officers.
Equipment: All Plaquemine City Police patrol units are fully equipped with all law enforcement equipment, including digital cameras to tape interaction of traffic stops and suspects, and state-of-the-art computers that provide detailed information on suspects and vehicles with the click of a button. These computers help officers know what situations they might be faced with in approaching vehicles or suspects. The department also has several unmarked police units.
It also maintains a boat for water rescues or law enforcement needs, a sophisticated mug shot database that does analysis and facial recognition processes, satellite radio and phone equipment and Lazer Shot training equipment, which allows officer training using lazer guns in public settings, such as City Hall. The Lazer Shot system will also be offered at community events for shooting practice.
The Police Department also has access to the new Mobile Command Center, a $350,000 emergency command center that allows numerous emergency response and law enforcement agencies to communicate with each other, provides a closed circuit TV, computers, weather station, and other equipment. The Center will be shared among Iberville Parish law enforcement and emergency response agencies.
If you are issued a traffic ticket: Traffic tickets are issued by the Plaquemine Police Department, but fines are collected by Plaquemine City Court. For information about how to pay your fine and the fine schedule, see the Plaquemine City Court section of this website, or call Plaquemine City Court at 225-687-7236.
What to do when stopped by Police!
Home security inspections or rape defense training: The Plaquemine Police Department provides free home security inspections and recommendations to homeowners requesting them. To request an inspection, call the Plaquemine Police Department at 225-687-9273.
The Department also provides free Rape Aggression Defense courses to women in groups of up to 12 women. For more information about this course, call the Police Department at 225-687-9273.
If you have a tip for police: Tips on crimes should be called in to the Plaquemine Police Department at 225-687-9273. Tips on drug activity should be directed to the LEAD Task Force at 225-687-5896. You will not be required to give your name in providing information to law enforcement officers.
Contact information: The Plaquemine Police Department headquarters is located at 23540 Railroad Avenue in Plaquemine. Phone: 225-687-9273. Questions, concerns or comments can also be e-mailed to Captain Kenny Payne at kpayne@plaquemine.org
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