Dirigo Safety News Today

Abbe Chabot served for 20 years as a Maine State Police detective, and is now a manager with Dirigo Risk Management Solutions. Among other things, the firm trains businesses in active shooter response.

Law enforcement’s readiness to handle mental health situations has come under scrutiny since October, when a Bowdoin man killed 18 people in Lewiston in the worst mass shooting in Maine history, and the disclosure that the Sagadahoc County sheriff’s...

With a shortage of mental health professionals, Maine police officers are forced to make decisions during mental heakth crises without proper training.

On Dec. 5, Lincoln County commissioners approved a $13,743,701 2024 budget. Commissioners Hamilton Meserve and Mary Trescot voted in favor of the budget. Commissioner William Meserve was absent due to a health issue. The budget represents an 8.99%...

Brian MacMaster retired from Attorney General Aaron Frey’s office last year after 53 years in law enforcement.

ROCKLAND — At last week’s annual Maine Chiefs of Police Association banquet, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, Darcie McElwee, recognized Rockland Police Chief Tim Carroll and the Rockland

ROCKLAND -- The City Council will vote Nov. 13 to accept a federal grant that will continue and expand the police departments community policing approach.

BAR HARBOR — Jim Willis, who retired last month as chief of police in Bar Harbor and Mount Desert, is now working as needed as a consultant to Acting Police

MOUNT DESERT — Community members from Bar Harbor and Mount Desert gathered in the Neighborhood House in Northeast Harbor on Aug. 11, along with police officers, firefighters, EMS personnel, park

MOUNT DESERT — Jim Willis, chief of the Mount Desert Police Department since 2003, and also police chief in Bar Harbor since 2013, is retiring effective Aug. 4.