City of Bellevue, Nebraska Police Department

Lieutenant Bob Wood is the Shift Commander for the Uniformed Patrol Bureaus "B" Team. As Shift Commander, he is responsible for commanding, directing and coordinating his team to ensure efficient, effective and proper police service delivery.

His duties as Shift Commander include the development and supervision of his teams two precinct sergeants. He also assists with and monitors the supervision, training and development of the officers assigned to his team. Lt Wood also performs functions such as staffing, scheduling work, assigning work duties, training personnel, handling employee complaints and completing performance evaluations.

Lt. Wood is one of the department’s four Field Training and Evaluation Program Coordinators.

Lt Wood joined the Bellevue Police Department in 1994 as a patrol officer. His distinguished career here has included service to the Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Unit, two years as a Detective with the Criminal Investigations Bureau and eight years service with the Special Investigations Unit (narcotics and gangs) at the ranks of sergeant and lieutenant.

Lt Wood has earned numerous and significant awards during his tenure of service to the department. These awards include a Lifesaving Citation (1996), the department's Officer of the Year Award (1995), the Knights of Aksarben State of Nebraska Officer of the Year (1996), Medal of Valor (1996), Meritorious Conduct (1996), Meritorious Service (2002), Detective of the Year (2002), Crime Stoppers Service Award (2002) twice earning the "Officer of the Quarter Award" (1995), and twice earning the department's Exemplary Performance of Duty (1999 & 2001).

Lt Wood began his law enforcement career in 1992 with the Cass County, Nebraska Sheriff's Office where he served for two years as a Deputy Sheriff. Lt Wood has a BS in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.