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Dealing with budget cuts?
With inevitable budget cuts because of COVID-19, agencies may find themselves needing to eliminate police positions. Do you have officers you have to let go, and would prefer finding another agency who could benefit from hiring them? Consider using OACP’s Sound Off to pass this information on to other chiefs.

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Interested in past messages related specifically to COVID- 19? We've compiled them here.

Oregon News

Portland Police Chief Jami Resch Resigns
Portland Mercury
Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Chief Jami Resch is resigning, she announced at a Monday noon press conference.
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KPD sgt. triples student award
Keizertimes
McNary graduate Jorie Skipper knew she was getting a $1,000 scholarship from the Keizer Police Association Friday, May 29, but Jeff and Liz Goodman had another surprise in store. 
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Portland superintendent says he’s ‘discontinuing’ presence of armed police officers in schools
The Oregonian
Portland Public Schools will no longer have city police officers patrol the halls of its nine high schools, nor will the other two school districts inside Portland city limits.
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Milton-Freewater police receive $20,000 grant for communications upgrade
East Oregonian
A $20,000 grant from the Wildhorse Foundation of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation is going toward a technology upgrade for the Milton-Freewater Police Department.
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National News

Body Camera Video Shows Illinois Officer and Sheriff's Deputy Rescue 12-Year-Old
Officer.com
Body camera footage shows Rock Falls Police Officer Ethan Riley and Whiteside County Sheriff's Deputy George Deputy rescue a 12-year-old girl from a house fire earlier this week.
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IACP President: Knee on neck never appropriate, local leader of police chiefs
Daily Herald
Placing a knee on a suspect's neck is an inappropriate use of force, the president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police said Friday as the Minneapolis Police Department moved to ban the tactic.
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Mac Donald: Statistics Do Not Support The Claim Of ‘Systemic Police Racism’
Daily Wire
An op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal by Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, pushed back on the notion that there is widespread systemic racism in American law enforcement.
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Hundreds mourn David Dorn, retired St. Louis police captain killed in looting
Fox News
Hundreds gathered at a public visitation was held Tuesday for retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, who was shot and killed by a looter during the George Floyd protests.
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