Promotional Ceremony Held Tuesday for Grand Forks Police Officers
November 13, 2012 in WDAZ
The Grand Forks Police Department is celebrating several promotions today. Police held a public promotional ceremony this morning honoring two members of the police family. Continue Reading
When Det. Mike Flannery started with the Grand Forks Police Department, the department still had an officer devoted around the clock to a downtown foot-patrol shift, many of which he walked himself.
Hoping to capitalize on social media to prevent crime and keep the community informed, the Grand Forks Police Department has established its own YouTube channel. Plans for the channel, which will be operated by the department’s community resource bureau, started about a month ago.
The Grand Forks Police Department could be hiring two military veterans thanks to a $250,000 federal grant it recently received. More than 800 officers could be hired nationally as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s $111 million “Vets to Cops” program.
Total reported crimes down 6 percent in 2011, but burglaries, other property crimes are on the riseThe number of reported crimes in Grand Forks hit a 15-year low in 2011, but property crimes and drug offenses were on the rise. Grand Forks had 9,193 reported crimes last year, the fewest since the flood year of 1997, according to the police department’s annual report released Monday.
Tasers, pepper spray uncommonA review of the past five years shows that the number of use-of-force reports filed by officers peaked in 2006, bottomed out in 2008 and rose in 2009 and 2010, almost re-attaining the 2006 level. 
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