Location
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. However, in many cases, it is unreasonably stricter than in real life.
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 of Bikini Bottom as well.
Bikini Bottom Jail
The jail holds the regular criminals, for simple crimes such as littering, as the The Tattle-Tale 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 to it is to go there from 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, there were watch towers, much like Inferno Island.
Vehicles
- Patrol boats
- 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)
- Sanitation Police boats
- SWAT-deploying helicopters ("The Thing")
- Prison Boats
- SWAT-battering ram helicopter ("Fungus Among Us")
Units, teams, and divisions
- Police Force
- HAZMAT Unit ("Fungus Among Us")
- SWAT Team ("Fungus Among Us")
- Volunteer Litter Patrol ("SpongeBob Meets the Strangler")
- Secret Forumula Division ("Patty Caper")
- Sanitation Police ("Sentimental Sponge")
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/walky-talky (Police Force)
- Anchor (police force)
- Wooden barrel (police force)
- Harpoon gun (SWAT)
Staff
Officers
- Al Priss (police chief)
- Officer Nancy O'Malley
- Marcie O'Malley
- Officer John Slugfish
- Officer Rob Johnson
- Highway Patrol
Prison/security guards
- Bikini Bottom Prison Guard
- Barney the Guard
- New Prison Recruit
- Bailiffs
- Frank The Guard
- Inferno Island Prison Warden
Special units
- S.W.A.T. Team
- HAZMAT Unit
- K9 Unit
- Guard-Worms (K9 Unit)
- Riot Guards
Associates
- Forest Ranger
- Charlie and Clayton
- National Guard
- Bikini Bottom Department of Health
- Bikini Bottom School
- Bikini Bottom Jail
Arrests/citations
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 apparently because he didn't 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 didn't 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 (actually resisting the highway project).
- "Fiasco!" - Taken to jail, just not locked away.
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 throwing a peanut at Clamu, but most likely pardoned when Mr. Krabs turned out to be the true criminal.
- "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" - Turned himself in because he thought he was the Tattle-tale 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 3 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.
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 What Zit Tooya's wallet and resisting arrest, as well as sprinting through a stop sign to escape with the wallet. He wasn't pulled over for committing an actual traffic violation until "Boating Buddies" (see below).
- "Boating Buddies" - Given a ticket for running a stop sign.
- "Professor Squidward" - Arrested for impersonating Squilliam Fancyson.
- "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" - Cited for littering (while it was clearly another citizen who did it) and ended up with a total of eight tickets.
- "Fiasco!" - For an unknown reason.
- "Squid Defense" - Arrested for beating up a fish who was only returning his groceries to him.
- "Patrick! The Game" - Arrested for destruction of private property.
Eugene H. Krabs
- "The Smoking Peanut" - Arrested for stealing Clamu's egg.
- "The Krusty Sponge" - Arrested for selling Spongy Patties (rotten Krabby Patties), which poisoned all of his customers at the Krusty Sponge.
- "Patty Caper" - Arrested for, ironically, stealing the secret ingredient to the secret formula (to avoid paying).
- "Growth Spout" - Cited for attempting to steal Mrs. Puff's Peanut Wormss from her garden, thinking they were peanuts he was going to take to his overly hungry daughter Pearl (she was having, hence the title, a "growth spout"), 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.
Sheldon J. Plankton
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Taken to the jail for taking 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.
- "Sweet and Sour Squid" - Arrested when the police see him running around with Squidward's clairinet and assume he was the one causing the "musical disturbance" that many Bikini Bottom citizens have complained about when it was actually Squidward. When he was put in the police boat, he exclaimed "Karen!!! Help!!!". Strangley, the policeman tilted Plankton's head forward and said "Watch your head" when Plankton had plenty of room fitting in the car due to his small stature.
- "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.
Mrs. Puff
Mrs. Puff's arrests was mainly due to SpongeBob's recklessness, and ironically, it was Mrs. Puff herself 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. It is more likely that she was thrown into jail rather than paying bail amount.
- "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.
Sandy Cheeks
- "The Great Snail Race" - Arrested for kicking SpongeBob in the butt. This only happens in a deleted scene.
- "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.
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.
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
Shelly Fishbowl and Tyler
- Loitering (when in reality they were just playing)
Bikini Bottom Prison Guard
- Throwing away a Krabby Patty (which hurts Spongebob's feelings)
Frankie Billy
- Chewing gum too loudly
Ivy (gray)
- His shoes were untied
Granny
- Being too old
Man Ray
- Being a retired villain
Mable
- Being friends with Man Ray (believed to be his accomplice)