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As a result, the precinct was closed on August 17, 2013, reducing the department's total number of precincts from five to four. As metropolitan Atlanta grew, so did the DeKalb County Police Department. In the last forty years, DKPD has expanded from 200 officers to its current staff of 714 sworn officers as of December 1, 2019.
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.
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 ...
September 25, 2024 at 3:20 AM. DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb County police are investigating a deadly shooting at an apartment complex on Pleasantdale Road. Officers were called to the scene at The ...
State (s) Georgia. 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.
Shemeka Toran, 36, of Augusta, was found dead Sunday at the Kroger on Wesley Chapel Road in Decatur, Georgia, according to the department. DeKalb police public information officer Elise Wells ...
Arrest made after couple found shot to death in charred DeKalb County home. Fox local. Deidra Dukes. September 18, 2024 at 7:46 PM. DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - Derris Deshaun Woods, 35, and Brittany Hall ...
Bryant served as interim police chief until the city named him as chief in June of 2020. Chief Schierbaum joined the Atlanta Police Department in 2002, [1] was appointed interim chief in June 2022, and chief in October 2022. [2] [3]