Campbell, Santa Clara County

Biohazard and crime scene cleanup in Campbell

Campbell is its own city with its own police, set against San Jose's western side. After a death or a violent incident here the steps are the same as next door. The phone numbers are not.

Call (669) 274-0805

Answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

A small downtown street of brick and stucco storefronts with street trees and a steel water tower behind.

Campbell police, not San Jose police

Inside the city limits the Campbell Police Department responds, and it decides when a scene is released. A dispatcher answers the non-emergency number, 408-866-2101, around the clock. In an emergency call 911; from a cell phone the department also gives 408-378-8161 as a direct emergency number.

The address on your mail is not a reliable guide. Part of ZIP code 95008 lies inside San Jose, so a home with a Campbell postal address can come under San Jose police. If you are unsure which department came, its name is on the officer's card and on the report.

For a copy of a report, the records counter at the police building on North First Street is open Monday to Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Insurers nearly always ask for the report number.

Deaths are a county matter

Campbell has no coroner of its own. The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office, on Thornton Way in San Jose, is the one police bring in. Its number is (408) 793-1900. Once you have named a funeral home, the funeral home deals with that office about release, and you need not go there.

Condominiums, duplexes and shared walls

In a condominium or a townhouse, tell the homeowners association or the manager early if fluids may have reached a shared wall, a garage underneath or a neighbor's ceiling. The association's insurance and yours may each cover a part, and both will want to hear before anything is taken out.

Give the cleanup company the manager's contact details, so that access to shared areas is not a surprise on the day.