North Vernon Police Department Application
Employment/application document. Saved manifest filename: here.pdf.
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North Vernon Police Department
A real department page: current leadership and contact information, compensation context, official-city links, and the police records already captured in the source vault.
Department at a glance
Who runs it, where it is, and how to reach it.
The City of North Vernon currently identifies Keith Messer as Police Chief. Emergency calls go to 911; the city lists separate office-hours and non-emergency dispatch numbers.
North Vernon Police Department
The city's current police pages describe NVPD as a community-oriented department focused on police services, investigations and proactive safety leadership. The city's published core values include fairness, respect, integrity, compassion, commitment, professionalism and open communication.
Police ChiefKeith MesserCurrent city-listed chief
Office101 N. Madison AvenueNorth Vernon, IN 47265
Office line812-346-1466City lists 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Monday–Friday
Non-emergency dispatch812-346-4911Emergency: 911
Public-facing services
The city page lists ordinance-citation payments at the police office and publishes service fees for VIN checks, background checks, recordings, public-record copies and impound administration.
VIN check$5
Background check$5
DVD / CD recording$40
Other public-record copies$0.10Per copy as listed by the city
These service details are summarized from the current City of North Vernon police page. The city's own page remains the controlling source for current fees and procedures.
Public money
Police compensation is part of the city payroll file.
The compensation explorer contains police payroll records back to 2014. These are reported compensation rows, not a headcount guarantee or an FTE roster.
$1,407,843.642025 police compensation reported in the current dataset.
22 rowsPolice compensation entries in the 2025 dataset.
$80,687.202025 compensation listed for Police Chief Keith Messer.
Police source drawer
Eight saved records, labeled by what they actually are.
The original download manifest put several waivers and fee sheets in an “Ordinances” folder and saved two useful files as here.pdf. The catalog below restores meaningful display titles while preserving the original collected path in the Records Vault.
Employment Interest Form
Recruitment interest form. Saved manifest filename: here.pdf.
Police Department Fee Sheet
Published department service-fee schedule.
Open city source ↗City Ordinance Violation Fee Schedule
Penalty/fee sheet associated with ordinance citations. It is not itself an ordinance booklet.
Open city source ↗General Order 20
Department general-order material, separated from actual city ordinances.
Open city source ↗Golf Cart Ordinance
City ordinance material related to golf-cart operation/enforcement.
Open city source ↗Request for Information Release / Waiver of Liability
Release/waiver form. The old manifest folder called it an ordinance; the document title does not.
Open city source ↗Background / Information Release Waiver
Background-information release waiver associated with an application.
Open city source ↗Catalog rule: document labels here describe the document itself. The Records Vault still shows the original collected path so the saved archive remains traceable even when its old folder label was misleading. Eight saved entries means eight entries captured in this archive, not “all police records that exist.”