At a brief February meeting of the Southgate city council, Police Chief John Christmann shared the annual police report covering his department’s activities in 2023. He emphasized the many avenues of training officers took over the course of the year, including two who trained to be certified by the FAA to fly the department’s drone. […]
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‘Lock your vehicle’ Southgate police chief warns citizens
The citizens of Southgate were recently warned to stop leaving their car doors unlocked. Chief of Police John Christmann spoke about the issue during February’s Southgate city council meeting. “People who have been here have heard me talk about locking your vehicles,” he said. “I’ve been here almost, what, 11 years? I can’t remember one […]
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Alexandria Police Looking for shooting suspect, residents to “shelter in place”
An active investigation on Brookwood Dr. in Alexandria, has led Alexandria Police to let residents know to “shelter in place until further notice” after police say a shooting occurred. An emergency advisory message was sent to residents by police via Nixle. The message also indicated that the area should be avoided. Authorities say they are […]
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Fort Thomas Police Using Technology To Help You
We have talked about the Nixle service on FTM before and how the FTPD used it to communicate possible safety concerns prior to a giant cost increase that made it no longer feasible to use. In the past few weeks, not only has the FTPD found a replacement for Nixle but they have also debuted […]
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Send the Police Your Contact Information… Wait, What?
Nixle was nixed because they dropped a $3,000 invoice without notice to the FTPD. Good for them. The first alternative out of the gate is get a list of interested citizens on a distribution list to see how many people would like to be informed via these new technological information blasts. From there, the police […]
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Nixle System to End
Nixle, the service our police department was employing to alert citizens of real time emergency and ongoing legal situations is coming to an end. Without previous notice, the service sent the department and invoice of $3,000. Obviously ridiculous, but not surprising. We recently experienced a similar situation with our email blast list. Nixle was a […]
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Thursday Quick Links
A few quick notes: 1) More burglaries in Fort Thomas. Received a Nixle message from Det. Brad Adams of the Fort Thomas Police today. Here’s the message: Over the past couple of weeks, the City of Fort Thomas has experienced a couple of burglaries. The burglaries appear to have occurred during daytime hours and entry […]
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Warning to Criminals: Fort Thomas Police Will Catch You
On the heels of two recent posts on Fort Thomas Matters, regarding crime – Fort Thomas police announced that “good old police work” helped nab two criminals who robbed the US Bank on Fort Thomas Avenue, last Saturday. “My hat goes off to Lt. Whitford and Gadzala, Det. Moening, Officers Goshorn, Dietz, Hunt, Redmond Sgt. […]
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Fort Thomas Crime; A Bicycle Connection?
The Nixle service has come in handy again as two recent crime alerts that have gone unpublicized but that could threaten your home. Last week the Fort Thomas Police Department issued an alert regarding what the department characterized as [experiencing] an unusual amount of bicycle thefts. The department encouraged citizens to keep their bikes secured and […]
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Nixle Service Coming in Handy
In our “I-want-information-now, highly-caffeinated society,” Nixle (the service recently being used by Fort Thomas officials) is proving to be beneficial to how pertinent news travels. The burglaries that have occurred in Fort Thomas over previous months, have presumably come to an end as police believe they have the culprits. I haven’t see anything on the […]