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The program is a cooperative effort between police agencies in Creve Coeur, Frontenac, Olivette and other departments.

The following information was provided by the Creve Coeur Police Crime Prevention Office: The Citizen Police Academy is an educational citizen-involved activity designed by the Creve Coeur, Des Peres, Frontenac, Olivette and Town & Country Police Departments. The goal of this academy is to promote understanding between the residents and its police officers regarding their respective needs and problems. By promoting this relationship, it is hoped that citizens and police can work together to make the entire community a safer place to live. The Citizen Police Academy is a unique opportunity to educate the public about the criminal justice system and provide insight into everyday police work.  Several areas of police training will be covered …

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Creve Coeur Police Losing Dispatching Partner

The Frontenac Fire Department will join Central County Fire Alarm next month.

Seven months into operation, the West Central Dispatch Center, which handles radio dispatching services for Creve Coeur Police, Town and Country Police, Frontenac Fire and Frontenac Police, is losing one of its partners. Effective November 1, the Frontenac Fire Department will work through Central County Fire Alarm, which handles dispatch for fire and ambulance agencies around West St. Louis County, including the Creve Coeur Fire Protection District. Frontenac Fire Chief Jack Trout said when his agency joined the WCDC, the hope was that other fire agencies would join, but talks with other departments, including Glendale and Ladue, did not lead to membership. Trout said the change will mean smoother service for the remaining agencies in the…

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People Of All Ages Flock To Creve Coeur Safety Fair

Agencies from around St. Louis County participated.

There's a good chance that if you've had an up close look at the inside of a police cruiser or an air-medic helicopter, it wasn't under the best of circumstances. That's what made the annual Creve Coeur Safety Fair a unique event Sunday on the campus of Barnes Jewish West County Hospital in Creve Coeur, as more than 40 agencies from the local level on up to federal departments showed off their gear, their vehicles, and demonstrated how those things help save lives and solve crimes every day. For some agencies, it was a chance to show the public what the job is really like, as opposed to how it gets portrayed on television and in the movies. For people of all ages, it was a lesson about what can happen if you're on the wrong side of a car …

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Police Dispatcher Serving Creve Coeur and Neighboring Communities Mourned

Lisa O'Brien had served in law enforcement radio dispatching since 2002.

The West Central Dispatch Center, which includes radio dispatching services for Creve Coeur Police, is mourning the sudden loss of Communications Specialist Lisa O’Brien, 31, who passed away Monday due to complications from a recent respiratory illness.  O'Brien is survived by her husband, Kevin, and her two children Aidan, 5 and Maddie, 8 months. Town and Country Police Captain Pat Kranz told Patch that O'Brien served in law enforcement for more than 10 years as a 911 dispatcher. She began in 2002 as a dispatcher for the Town and Country Police Department and recently transferred to the newly created West Central Dispatch Center, which also dispatches for Town and Country and police. "She was one of those people who could just light up …

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