The Crestwood Police Department is now accredited following four years of work toward that goal and a final assessment in March. The Crestwood force earned its accreditation through the Missouri Police Chiefs Charitable Foundation. At the videoconferenced Board of Aldermen meeting April 13, representatives from the foundation officially presented the department with its accreditation. “This.
Williams is taking the helm from retiring Chief of Police Ron Compton.
The new chief, whose first day with the department was in January, was unanimously appointed to the position of police chief by the Board of Aldermen at the end of last year, and was hired with a starting salary of $97,500.
“I was really looking for a professional police department that I can be proud to be chief of. I was familiar with Crestwood, having grown up next to it. I spent many Friday and Saturday nights at the Crestwood mall,” Williams said of his decision to apply in Crestwood. “I knew the history here was kind of to hire from inside, but I will always be grateful that I was given the opportunity. It is everything I’ve been looking for in a police department. A great community. A great set of officers.”
Several local police departments, in cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, will be host sites for the Prescription Drug Take Back Program on Saturday, April 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Take Back Day events provide people with an opportunity to prevent drug addiction and overdose deaths. Citizens are encouraged to drop off unused and/or expired prescription medications for safe disposal.Â
Participating Locations:
⢠â¯Kirkwood Police Department, 131 W. Madison Ave.
⢠â¯Glendale Police Department, 424 N. Sappington Road
⢠â¯Rock Hill Police Department, 827 N. Rock Hill Road
⢠â¯Sunset Hills Police Department, 3905 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
For additional locations, visit takebackday.dea.gov.
Updated: 7:57 PM CST February 15, 2021
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. Great Circle, a child behavioral welfare organization, announced its Webster Groves campus was ending its residential treatment program.
In a press release, the organization said the residential program would come to an end once all new facilities can be found for the clients currently in the program. All other programs at the facility will continue, the press release said.
The decision comes less than a month after the state of Missouri announced it was suspending the placement of children in the program at the Webster Groves campus.
Other Great Circle locations will continue residential treatment programs, including campuses in Columbia, Marshall, Springfield and St. James.
Neighbors, businesses and area police departments ask that residents be wary of a recent wave of catalytic converter thefts from cars. The devices, which control exhaust emissions from vehicles, can be sold to scrap yards for the trace amounts of precious metals they contain.
âIn the past two months â December and January â we have taken a total of five reports for catalytic converter thefts,â said Lt. Andy Miller of the Webster Groves Police Department. âIn the three previous months, there had been four reports.â
Miller said four of the recent thefts occurred at businesses, with three of those at an auto repair business. All incidents occurred in the overnight hours. Police believe thieves are using a cordless reciprocating saw in the thefts.Â