In today’s Northfield News: Burglaries in Northfield down by 40 percent in 2011 While calls for service are up through the end of last week, crime overall is down, most…
Tag: <span>Northfield Police Department</span>
Sheena Basness, Community Service Officer with the Northfield Police Department, was chalking tires downtown in front of Hogan Bros on Tuesday morning. I’ve been waiting a long time to get…
Three of Northfield’s finest were first in line today at 6 am for the Goodbye Blue Monday annual doughnut sale. Out of respect for Homeland Security guidelines and Quality Bakery,…
While the Northfield City Council struggles with budget cut issues, the Northfield Police Department decided to be proactive this week. It announced a program to reduce department payroll called Police…
We got a few emails asking us if we knew why a helicopter was circling over Northfield for quite a while at 1 am this morning. I spoke with Northfield…
Sheena Basness, Community Service Officer with the Northfield Police Department, alerted me about this year’s Police Association Golf Tournament (4-person best-ball scramble), held on Monday at the Northfield Golf Club.…
Our guest this week was Northfield Deputy Police Chief Chuck Walerius, talking about the new CodeRed emergency notification system for Rice and Steele counties (brochure/FAQ PDF) and the test of the system coming up on April 15.
You can sign up now so that the system alerts you via landline phone, cell phone, text message and email. Just visit either the City of Northfield Police Dept. page or the Emergency info page and click on the CodeRed logo/link. You’ll be sent to a special Rice/Steele page on the CodeRed.com website. (I’m deliberately not linking to it from here in case the URL changes.)
Despite what you see in this photo, I’m not the type who would verbally abuse a cop. But this article in yesterday’s NY Times about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., As Officers Face Heated Words, Their Tactics Vary, made me wonder what the line of tolerance is for our local men and women in blue. Should they ignore the verbal abuse as long as no threats are being made? Does the setting matter (public vs private)? How about if the comments are coming from a youth? (continued)
Last month it was a bogus speeding citation while going through Cannon City at 6:30 on Saturday morning. Today’s 6:30 am citation was for my motorcycle trailer’s encroachment in the…