Police Section :: Page 10

• Village Council— A focus on police issues

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 27, 2014

  

  Community concerns around the local police department, an alleged incident of police misconduct and the current police chief search were a focus at Village Council’s Nov. 17 meeting.

• Yellow Springs Police find internal misconduct

  By Lauren Heaton

  

  An internal Yellow Springs Police investigation last week found that one of its officers exhibited two counts of improper conduct during an encounter with a villager on Nov. 5.

• New officers greeted by community

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 21, 2014

  

  Four new police officers joined the Yellow Springs force in 2014.

• Resident records police action

  By Lauren HeatonNovember 20, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs Police acknowledged last week that the local department had made some errors when one of its officers allegedly used physical force against a  citizen.

• Interim Yellow Springs police chief a former major

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 16, 2014

  

  After just a few days on the job, Yellow Springs Interim Police Chief Dave Hale can see that the YSPD is an “established, well-run department,” he said in an interview last week. During the two months or so he expects to be here, he intends to keep it that way.

• Mayor’s Court being used less

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 9, 2014

  

  over the past five years, the use of the local Mayor’s Court has declined to less than half the cases it was handling five years ago.

• Village names interim police chief

  By Lauren HeatonOctober 1, 2014

  

  Retired Montgomery County Sheriff’s officer Dave Hale was hired as interim police chief this week.

• Police Chief Pettiford resigns

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 25, 2014

  

  Yellow Springs Police Chief Anthony Pettiford resigned for medical reasons on Monday of this week, Village Manager Patti Bates announced at the end of a Village Council meeting Monday night, following an executive session.

• Police chief resigns

  By Diane ChiddisterSeptember 15, 2014

  

  Village Manager Patti Bates announced tonight that she has accepted the resignation for medical reasons of Yellow Springs Police Chief Anthony Pettiford.

• Yellow Springs is SWAT member

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 6, 2014

  

  In recent years, there has been increased awareness of the growing number of SWAT team raids in this country. Since the 1980s, police departments’ use of SWAT has risen about 1,500 percent, resulting in about 148 SWAT raids daily, according to University of Eastern Kentucky criminal justice professor Peter Kraska in a June 9 New York Times article.