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Great Falls Police Chief Newton gives department update during Council of Councils meeting Nicole Girten, Great Falls Tribune
Newly instated Great Falls Police Chief Jeff Newton gave an update on crime statistics and answered questions during the Council of Councils meeting Tuesday night.
The Council of Councils typically convenes several times a year and invites representatives from all nine neighborhood councils to participate. This was their first meeting of 2021 as the meeting originally scheduled in January was cancelled due to COVID-19 precautions.
Newton gave an overview to the council on trends GFPD is seeing from the data collected in 2020. He gave the caveat that the pandemic complicated how some crimes are reported and therefore reflects some dips and spikes in the data. An example he gave was the apparent dip in reports of child sex offenses in 2020. Newton explained this was due to children not attending school in person, where teachers and coun