(Anchorage) – In a newly created position, a retired Alaska State Trooper returns as VPSO operations director to reimagine the 43-year-old Village Public Safety Officer program. On FirstHand, the podcast, Joel Hard says VPSOs are so critical to public safety in villages, that he could not have done his Trooper job without them. Now […]
Dozens of Alaska Villages Have No Police At All Dozens of Alaska communities still have no police to protect their residents. “Every community deserves public safety. Letting a criminal assault community members, with no protection from any police officer isn’t justice, it’s negligence,” said Mike Williams, Sr. and Les Gara in a joint statement today. “All Alaskans […]
On Thursday evening, Wildlife troopers on Prince of Wales and Village Public Safety Officers on the island did a check on an unoccupied home in Hollis that resulted in the arrest of a Washington man on several charges. VPSOs and Wildlife troopers went to the home at 5:15 pm on Thursday and immediately discovered fresh […]
Two Prince of Wales men were taken into custody after a report of a burglary and extensive search at a cabin near Kasaan on Saturday. A witness called in to report that as they were going to check on the cabin they discovered two unknown men actively burglarizing the property. When seen by the caller, […]