From Fargo Police Chief Dave Zibolski to Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting, some of the biggest trends revolved around mental health issues in the community to the importance of mutual aid between law enforcement on either side of the Red River.
(Fargo, ND) Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says rural law enforcement agencies are having a hard time keeping up with agencies in the suburbs when it comes to hiring. "There is a lot of suburbs looking for cops too and those suburbs are offering everything under the sun as it pertains to hiring. We can't keep up. We can't keep up with the six figure salaries that they're
(Fargo, ND) Clay County Sheriff Mark Empting says 20 percent of the inmates in the county jail have mental health issues and that some of them should not be jailed. "Essentially what we are doing here is when we keep these people in our facilities for that long, all we are doing is criminalizing mental health and we just have to as a state, they have to figure something out
A father and son from Wahpeton were honored for helping save the life of a sugarbeet truck driver involved in a crash in October near Sabin, Minnesota.