Bikini Bottom Police Department

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Not to be confused with the Bikini Bottom Jail.

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Bikini Bottom Police Department
Industry	Police Station
Location	Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean
Employment	Al Gristlepuss Several Incidental 118s Incidental 118B Policeman 2 Incidental 118D Incidental 118A Cop
First appearance	"Hall Monitor"
Latest appearance	"Pinned"

The Bikini Bottom Police Department (BBPD) is the main law enforcement entity in Bikini Bottom. This includes officers, wardens, prison guards, SWAT Team, and riot guards. Their headquarters is the Police Station. It first appears in the episode "Hall Monitor."

Establishments

The Bikini Bottom Police Department has established multiple locations to base their operations, as well as places to contain offenders of the law.

Police headquarters

The station is where the cops stay and receive calls for crimes, which is seen in "Life of Crime." They have a dispatcher unit somewhere in a different building in Bikini Bottom as well.

Bikini Bottom Jail

The jail holds the regular criminals, for simple crimes such as littering, as the Tattletale Strangler had to stay for littering outside of the Krusty Krab. It holds major criminals as well, such as Plankton for trying to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, in which he has a pad-locked cell, which he easily breaks out of, as seen in "Krabby Road."

Inferno Island

Inferno Island is a high-security prison, located in the middle of a body of water. The only way to get there is to go to the dock-yard on a metal boat, to make sure there are no possible ways for prisoners to escape and swim to shore. The island is very harsh and the prisoners must sleep on hard beds with flat pillows.

Inferno Island is much like Alcatraz Island, a prison island from the early-to-mid 1900s that was strangely abandoned. Alcatraz was near land, had jagged rocks around it, and prisoners were transported to it by boat. The beds were hard, and there were watchtowers, much like Inferno Island.

Vehicles

• Patrol boats ("Hall Monitor")
• Police cruiser
• Police interceptor ("The Smoking Peanut")
• Helicopters
• S.W.A.T. Team-deploying trucks
• Loading trucks (prison guards)
• K-9 Unit dispatch vehicle
• Prison trucks (prisoners only)
• Bikini Bottom Sanitation Police boats
• SWAT-deploying helicopters ("The Thing")
• Prison boats
• SWAT-battering ram helicopter ("Fungus Among Us")

Units, teams, and divisions

• Police Force
• SWAT Team ("Fungus Among Us")
• Volunteer Litter Patrol ("SpongeBob Meets the Strangler")
• Secret Formula Division ("Patty Caper")
• Bikini Bottom Sanitation Police ("Sentimental Sponge")
• Highway Speed Patrol ("Driven to Tears")

Weapons/gear

The Bikini Bottom Police Department is usually armed with one of the following weapons:

• Electric conch shell at the End of a bamboo pole (HAZMAT Unit)
• Baton (police force)
• Police radio/walkie-talkie (Police Force)
• Anchor (police force)
• Wooden barrel (police force)
• Harpoon gun (SWAT)

Staff

Officers

• Al Gristlepuss (police chief)
• Several Incidental 118s
• Incidental 118B
• Cop
• Incidental 118A
• Incidental 118D
• Highway Speed Patrol
• Policeman 2

Prison/security guards

• Prison guard 1
• Prison guard 2
• Barney
• Frank
• Warden

Special units

• SWAT Team
• HAZMAT Unit
• K-9 Unit
• Guard worms (K9 Unit)
• Riot guards

Associates

• Ranger
• National guard
• Bikini Bottom Department of Health
• Bikini Bottom School
• Bikini Bottom Jail

Known Criminal Records

The Bikini Bottom Police Department have arrested several characters in the series. Here is the list.

Bikini Bottom jurisdictions

SpongeBob SquarePants

• "Life of Crime"- Turned himself and Patrick in, but was released within a few seconds due to it being National Free Balloon Day, thus making the "crime" they committed invalid.
• "Doing Time" - Arrested in one of Mrs. Puff's dream sequences.
• "Party Pooper Pants" - Arrested because he did not invite the police to his party and spent a night behind bars in a bunny outfit. The initial reason was for attempting to break into his own house.
• "Driven to Tears" - Turned himself in to save Patrick from being arrested for a crime he did not commit.
• "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" - Given a ticket for littering, by building a statue made out of garbage, at the end of the episode, along with Squidward.
• "SpongeBob's Last Stand" - Arrested for using a sitar without license.
• "Fiasco!" - Taken to jail, just not locked away.
• "Cave Dwelling Sponge" - Arrested falsely for destroying Stretch's mailbox, destroying Incidental 14's fountain and destroying Incidental 69's fence.
• "Call the Cops" - Arrested for impersonating an officer.

Patrick Star

• "Life of Crime" - Turned himself and SpongeBob in, but was released within a few seconds due to it being Free Balloon Day, thus making the "crime" they committed invalid.
• "The Smoking Peanut" - Arrested for falsely throwing a peanut at Clamu (in which SpongeBob was responsible), but pardoned when Mr. Krabs turned out to be the true criminal.
• "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" - Turned himself in because he thought he was the Tattletale Strangler.
• "Driven to Tears" - Sentenced to 90 days in jail for littering, but was pardoned when SpongeBob admitted he was the litterbug, and he was sentenced instead. He was ticketed for running three red lights.
• "Good Ol' Whatshisname" - Arrested for an unknown reason, because he appeared in Squidward's cell.
• "SpongeBob's Last Stand" - Arrested along with SpongeBob, for actually resisting the highway project.
• "Restraining SpongeBob" - Not seen but was thrown in jail for violating a restraining order.
• "Fiasco!" - Taken to jail, just not locked away.
• "The Executive Treatment" - Arrested when he exchanged a person.
• "Call the Cops" - Originally taken himself to jail, and then arrested and kicked out of police station for helping Plankton stealing the secret formula in evidence room, but then enters again.

Squidward Tentacles

• "Bossy Boots" - Given a ticket for stripping himself naked in public.
• "Squid on Strike" - Given a ticket for littering, because he threw his Krusty Krab employee hat on the ground.
• "Good Ol' Whatshisname" - Arrested for stealing Mr. What Zit Tooya's wallet and resisting arrest, as well as sprinting through a stop sign to escape with the wallet.
• "Boating Buddies" - Given a ticket for running a stop sign.
• "Professor Squidward" - Arrested for impersonating Squilliam Fancyson.
• "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" - Cited for littering and ended up with a total of eight tickets.
• "Fiasco!" - Arrested for lying toward officer.
• "Squid Defense" - Arrested for beating up a fish who was only trying to return his groceries to him.
• "Patrick! The Game" - Arrested for destruction of private property.
• "Insecurity Guards" - Arrested for hanging a painting in art museum.

Eugene H. Krabs

• "The Smoking Peanut" - Arrested for stealing Clamu's egg.
• "The Krusty Sponge" - Arrested for selling Spongy Patties, which poisoned all of his customers at the Krusty Sponge.
• "Patty Caper" - Arrested for, ironically, stealing the secret ingredient to the secret formula.
• "Growth Spout" - Cited for attempting to steal Mrs. Puff's peanut worms from her garden, thinking they were peanuts he was going to take to his overly hungry daughter Pearl, but he was never seen being arrested.
• "The Wreck of the Mauna Loa" - Arrested for posing a danger to public safety by nearly killing everyone with the unsafe amusement park ride.
• "Pat the Horse" - Pulled over for impersonating a police officer. He was not arrested.
• "Call the Cops" - Arrested for impersonating an officer and stealing evidence.
• "The Krusty Slammer " - Arrested for releasing prisoners early.

Sheldon J. Plankton

• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Arrested for enslaving the Bikini Bottomites and turning the town into Planktopolis.
• "Goo Goo Gas" - Arrested for turning Mr. Krabs into a baby.
• "Krabby Road" - Arrested for trying to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, then for breaking out of jail to steal it again but ends up getting arrested again when SpongeBob caught him.
• "Sweet and Sour Squid" - Arrested falsely for causing a "musical disturbance."
• "Fiasco!" - Arrested for stealing a piece of famous artwork.
• "Jailbreak!" - Originally arrested for an unknown reason and, at the end, was arrested for escaping prison/trying to steal the formula.
• "Call the Cops" - Arrested for trying to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, and also got put into jail by police because Patrick Star bailed him out and he trespassed in the evidence room.
• "The Krusty Slammer" - Arrested for vandalizing Bikini Bottom.

Mrs. Puff

Mrs. Puff's arrests are mainly due to SpongeBob's recklessness, and ironically, Mrs. Puff herself is charged to be responsible for that.

• "Hall Monitor" - Arrested because of the destruction of Bikini Bottom, as she said SpongeBob was her responsibility.
• "No Free Rides" - Arrested for stealing SpongeBob's new boat, speeding, crashing into a police boat, and resisting arrest.
• "Doing Time" - Arrested for SpongeBob's destruction.
• "Ditchin'" - Arrested for ditching jury duty.
• "Summer Job" - Arrested for littering.
• "Oral Report" - Arrested due to the fact her student, SpongeBob, was out of control and was under her responsibility.
• "Patrick-Man!" - Arrested for attempting to steal a boat. This is false because Patrick Man thought she was trying to steal the boat when she was actually trying to help the man get out of the boat, but she was charged with a felony anyway.
• "Bumper to Bumper" - Arrested for crossing the county line, thus violating her parole.
• "Potato Puff" - Arrested for endangering the city after disguising herself as a potato to avoid SpongeBob's driving test.

Sandy Cheeks

• "Someone's in the Kitchen with Sandy" - Arrested for "public nudity" after her pelt was stolen.

Gary the Snail

• Gary has never been arrested once, although he is taken to jail in "Fiasco!" to clear up a mess.

Pearl Krabs

• She has never been arrested so far.

Squilliam Fancyson

• "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" - Given a ticket for littering.

Tattletale Strangler

• "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" - Arrested for littering and eluding police officer, but he escaped. He later resorts to turning himself in to steer clear of SpongeBob's annoyance.

Acceleration T. Greenlight

• "Student Driver Survivor" - Arrested for handing out phony driver's licenses.

Bikini Bottomite community

• Numerous minor reasons.

Other jurisdictions

Jewel Triplets Gang

• Theft of Neptune's jewel of the sea.

Orin J. Ruffy

• Embezzlement of over 75,000 bucks worth of ham sandwiches.

SpongeBob and Patrick

Incidental 150 and Incidental 151

• Loitering (when in reality they were just playing)

Prison guard 1

• Throwing away a Krabby Patty (which hurts SpongeBob's feelings)

Steve

• Chewing gum too loudly

Stretch

• His shoes were untied.

Grandma

• Being too old

Man Ray

• Being a retired villain

Incidental 82

• Being friends with Man Ray (believed to be his accomplice)