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WASHBURN The Washburn Police Department no longer exists. The central Illinois village will continue to have regular police protection, albeit from the Woodford County Sheriff s Office. The change in jurisdiction is related, at least in part, to a probable change in state law. Police-brutality cases and protests last year helped influence the recently approved Illinois crime-reform bill, which awaits Gov. JB Pritzker s signature. The bill wasn t the main reason Washburn officials decided to dissolve the police force, according to Village President Steve Forney. The village that hugs the Marshall-Woodford county line, about 25 miles from Peoria, had considered a sheriff s-office patrol contract off and on for at least 30 years. ....
WASHBURN The Washburn Police Department no longer exists. Washburn will continue to have regular police protection, albeit from the Woodford County Sheriff s Office. The change in jurisdiction is related, at least in part, to a probable change in state law. Police-brutality cases and protests last year helped influence the recently approved Illinois crime-reform bill, which awaits Gov. JB Pritzker s signature. The bill wasn t the main reason Washburn officials decided to dissolve the police force, according to Village President Steve Forney. The village that hugs the Marshall-Woodford county line had considered a sheriff s-office patrol contract off and on for at least 30 years. ....