Sea Ranch Lakes is a village in Broward County, Florida, United States.

The village was incorporated on October 6, 1959, because residents in the original gated community feared that they would be forcibly annexed by Fort Lauderdale, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, or Pompano Beach.

All roads, streets, parks, and lakes are private property owned by the Sea Ranch Beach Club.

The department has approximately 15 certified police officers and is led by Chief James O'Brien.

Chief O'Brien retired from the Rochester NY Police Department as a captain and has over 40 years of law enforcement experience.

The department is dispatched by the Broward County Sheriff's Office 911 communications and responds as District 26.

The department prides itself on its low crime rate, with the majority offenses occurring within the commercial plaza.

In the early 1980s, the department was one of the first in Broward County to have developed a formal hurricane emergency policy.

Supplementing uniform patrol efforts, the department has detectives who are responsible for conducting most criminal investigations.

The Sea Ranch Lakes Police Department has partnered with area law enforcement agencies through signed Memorandums of Understanding (M.O.U.)

The department provides all first responder services and assumes responsibility for such matters as Animal Control and residential security checks.

The department renders "Mutual Aid Assistance" to other Law enforcement agencies operating primarily along the coast.

The department sadly has experienced the line of duty death of one of its patrol officers, Sergeant Henry Nelson Adams, in 1975.

Sergeant Adams suffered a fatal heart attack while conducting a traffic stop, and died at the age of 50 after having served with the department for four years.

As of October 2008, the Pompano Beach Fire Department provides services after Broward County Sheriff's Office closed its station in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.