HIBBING â An officer with the Hibbing Police Department is being recognized by the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association as a recipient of its Distinguished Service Award.
Officer Joey Burns is among the recipients, and is being honored for his exceptional police work and community involvement throughout 2020, according to a press release.
Burns has been with the Hibbing Police Department since 2014 and is also currently the K-9 Officer with his partner Chase for the police department, according to a press release from the Hibbing Police Department.
âIt is a great honor to our police department and community to have one of our own officers receive such an honorable recognition like this,â Hibbing Police Chief Steve Estey wrote in the release. âOfficer Burns has done an outstanding job â not only doing police work, but his high involvement in our community is what has been his biggest accomplishment.â
What police reforms have the best odds of passing in Minnesota this year? Both sides agree on no-knock warrants, traffic stops, but harmony ends there. May 18, 2021 4:54pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The debate over police reform is shifting behind closed doors as the Minnesota Legislature goes into overtime. Yet a clearer picture of what may and may not pass is coming into focus.
Support is coalescing around reforms related to traffic stops and new no-knock warrant regulations as lawmakers work to find agreement on one of the year s most pressing policy issues.
Yet, House Democrats are holding out hope that all 12 police-related bills offered up in the final weeks of the regular session still have a chance. Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka meanwhile is doubling down on a commitment to oppose anything that is anti-police or makes the job of law enforcement more difficult, singling out measures such as new
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Saturday, December 26, 2020
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The police chief of Bloomington, Minnesota announced Saturday he plans to retire at the end of January and take a position leading the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Police Chief Jeff Potts will complete a 29-year career at the department that began when he became a patrol officer at age 23. He has been police chief for 12 years.
Potts, 52, willl become the executive director of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police in February.
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