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The DeKalb County Police Department (DKPD) is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, as well as the incorporated cities of Tucker and Stonecrest. The department serves a population of more than 730,000 people. The chief is Mirtha V. Ramos. [1]
The area of DeKalb county was acquired by the state of Georgia as a result of the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs with a faction of the Muscogee (Creek). DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...
Sidney Dorsey (born February 23, 1940) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia from 1996 to 2000. Dorsey was the first African American to serve as sheriff of DeKalb County. When Dorsey lost a 2000 runoff election to challenger Derwin Brown, he arranged Brown's murder.
A man arrested last week in connection to the death of a DeKalb County Sheriff's Deputy has been released from jail. Nathan P. Sweeney, 44, of DeKalb, was released from custody Monday after the ...
The Brief. A DeKalb County deputy shot a murder suspect, Marquiece Beadle, during an attempted arrest at Covington Glen Apartments. The incident took place around 4 p.m. on Thursday in the 5800 ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Georgia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 628 law enforcement agencies employing 26,551 sworn police officers, about 274 for each 100,000 residents.
Mincey was arrested by U.S Marshals in Stonecrest, Georgia, on June 22, Thurmond said. ... and placed in the DeKalb County Jail. While investigators were looking at Mincey for Fowler’s death ...
Vernon Angus Jones (born October 31, 1960) is an American politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001 and from 2017 to 2021.. Between his periods in the Georgia House of Representatives, Jones was chief executive officer of DeKalb County from 2001 to 2009.