OACP News

Please note, we will not be sending out a Weekly Update next week in the usual format. Instead, be looking for a New Year's message coming your way.

To OACP Members and Administrative Staff:

Happy Holidays! We should be singing, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,” but impacts of the pandemic are changing the way the holidays are being celebrated. This year will not look like Christmas and holidays of the past. Instead of the many celebrations we are accustomed to over Christmas, New Year’s and other observed holidays, our festivities are dialed back considerably from what we may have been accustomed.

Regardless, like everything else we have had to adapt to and change because of COVID-19, we can still celebrate the holidays; we just have to celebrate differently.

The good news, as I write this message, is that the vaccine has arrived and is being administered to Oregonians. My hope is that decision-makers properly place Oregon’s dedicated law enforcement officers in the vaccination queue to receive the vaccine sooner than later, so service to our Oregon communities can continue with less risk of impacts by the virus to our law enforcement officers.

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Chief Joel Fish will be leaving Enterprise PD after four years as their chief and transitioning to his new position as Wallowa County Sheriff on January 1. The OACP wishes him a smooth transition and much success in this next adventure. 

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Oregon News

4 arrests made after protesters attempt to enter Oregon State Capitol during session
Statesman Journal
Monday’s special session at the Oregon Capitol was slightly disrupted as protestors —who appeared to oppose policies closing certain businesses to slow the spread of the coronavirus — tried in vain to get into a largely-empty Capitol.
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Prineville police, Crook County SO still make ‘Shop with a Cop’ happen
KTVZ
The year 2020 has been an interesting and difficult year for everyone, and we all have had to adapt in one way or another to all that has been going on this year.  Shop with a Cop was no exception.
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Salem's new Police Chief Trevor Womack shares his vision for the department
Statesman Journal
Salem's new police Chief Trevor Womack said he has a lot to learn about his new city. But he said he's ready to bring his decades of experience in law enforcement to his position, lead the department as policing evolves, and give back to the community.
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Oregon decriminalizes possession of small amounts of street drugs
Fox News
Douglas Kennedy of Fox News did a news story on Oregon’s decriminalization of drugs under recently passed measure 110. One of those interviewed about the expected impacts of M110 was OACP President Jim Ferraris.
Click here to watch the video.

National News

Overdose deaths far outpace COVID-19 deaths in San Francisco
AP
A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.
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FBI publishes posters in Navajo on missing person, homicide cases
KRQE
The FBI is partnering with the Navajo Nation to crack down on unsolved cases. The FBI is publishing 13 posters for the first time in English and now Navajo on missing person and homicide cases within the Navajo Nation.
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9-year-old girl collects 679 Christmas cards for police officers in Berks County
Reading Eagle
In early November, the Lower Heidelberg Township girl told her mother that she wanted to make greeting cards to deliver to police departments in her area. She set a goal of 300 cards.
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