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The city of Akron was founded in December 1825, where the south part of the downtown Akron neighborhood sits today.The earliest artifact present in the Akron Police Department Museum is a key to the Akron Police Jail from 1890. [3] [4] The Akron police department was the first police department ever to use a horseless, motorized police vehicle.
Akron City Council on Monday approved the Akron Police Department’s plan to seek a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice through the COPS Hiring Program.
Other Ohio cities have looked outside their police department ranks in recent years to find their next police chief. Columbus, for example, hired its current police chief from Detroit in 2021. Of ...
The question of why the budget for staffing the police department is so high despite Akron's falling crime rates came up during most of the break-out discussions.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Ohio.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 831 law enforcement agencies employing 25,992 sworn police officers, about 225 for each 100,000 residents.
Akron Mayor Shammas Malik can't seek an opinion from AG about the legality of hiring a police chief from outside the department, city spokeswoman says.
But bottom line, it’s time for us to support the Akron Police Department. According to a 2023 study , Akron ranked as the 39th highest crime city in the country. Cleveland was ninth.
A record number of women are part of the Akron Police Department’s class of cadets in the training academy. Nearly a third of the trainees – 15 out of 47 – are women.