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Created: May 18, 2021 08:38 PM Tuesday morning, Minnesota State Fair Police Chief Paul Paulos wrote an email to State Fair Board members and other officers, telling them he was retiring at the end of the Memorial Day weekend. Sources told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Paulos wanted improved equipment and better officer training and State Fair management decided to go in another direction and seek an outside law enforcement agency to take over public safety at the fair. There are dozens of law enforcement officers at the fair each day and the vast majority are off-duty officers from other agencies across the state. Sources told KSTP that administrators at the fair had asked the Minnesota State Patrol, St. Paul Police and the University of Minnesota Police to take over as the fair s contracted law enforcement agency for the fair s 12-day run in late August and early September. However, all three have declined the offer because they do not have enough officers to handle the fair

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