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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 342 law enforcement agencies employing 7,707 sworn police officers, about 262 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
Perry County is part of the Hattiesburg, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. Until 1906, the county seat was the old town of Augusta, near the center of the county on the east bank of the Leaf River. At Old Augusta, the outlaw James Copeland was executed by hanging on October 30, 1857. [3] Old Augusta remains a small village today.
New Augusta is a town in Perry County, Mississippi. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 554 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Perry County. [2] New Augusta is located about two miles south of "Old" Augusta, which was the county seat until 1906.
Report scam phone number If you receive such a call and question the legitimacy of the call, please contact the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office at (540) 245-5333.
A Lexington, Miss., police cruiser is parked outside their facility near the town square, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
The announcement comes amid a Justice Department probe into alleged civil rights violations by police in Lexington, Mississippi. The ongoing investigation, which began in November, is focused on ...
CSBC was founded in 1940 as the Southern Baptist General Convention of California. [9] The convention changed its name to its current name in 1988. [ 9 ] Several times in recent decades efforts to change the name of the convention to remove "Southern" have failed.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights probe of Lexington, Mississippi's police department after reports of excessive force and discriminatory policing, a ...