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Area police to hit streets tonight

Published 12:05am Tuesday, August 7, 2012

NATCHEZ — Local law enforcement will be hitting the streets in full force today to rally support from area neighborhoods in this year’s National Night Out celebration.

The Natchez Police Department, Vidalia Police Department, Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office, Ferriday Police Department, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and Wilkinson County Sheriff’s Office will caravan together with the departments leaving NPD at 3 p.m. and heading to Ferriday Police Department.

The law enforcement officers and officials will spend approximately 20 minutes at each stop.

The stops are as follows:

• Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Vidalia, 4:30-4:50 p.m.

• Linwood subdivision in Natchez, 5-5:20 p.m.

• Duncan Park, 5:30-5:50 p.m.

• Miller Avenue, 6-6:20 p.m.

• Oakridge Manor, 6:30-6:50 p.m.

• Minor Street, 7-7:20 p.m.

• Woodlawn neighborhood, 7:30-7:50 p.m.

• Felix Street, 8-8:20 p.m.

Block parties will be hosted at each stop by the Neighborhood Watch programs.

Natchez Detective Jerry Ford said police will be able to answer any questions or address concerns residents have about law enforcement in their neighborhood while at the National Night Out stops.

“We’re looking forward to meeting and greeting the citizens of the community,” Ford said. “We want to send a message out to criminals to let them know that this National Night Out is just the beginning.”

Ford said NPD is preparing to form a partnership with other area law enforcement to promote and engage residents in crime prevention.

“With citizens and law enforcement working together, we can really make this is a great community to live in,” Ford said.

 

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  • Anonymous

    Wheres Adams S,O. gonna be?

  • Anonymous

    Patrolling the courthouse.

  • vilou09

    Every year it’s the same song and dance from these people. You’d think it’s the first one of these nights ever! PUH-LEASE!
    People will still be robbed and burglarized and mugged the next day while the police sit at their speed traps.

  • Anonymous

    The need to cut out all that bull and get to patroling the city and county,all this burglary,armed robbery,thuggin,drugs needs to be addressed,

  • Anonymous

    Just another worthless idea.

  • Anonymous

    Just another worthless idea,get off your rears and catch some thugs.

  • Anonymous

    Attention thuggs, the poo-poo is coming..stupid.

  • Anonymous

    A waste of tax payers money. Just like the road Construction going on down pass Walmart. What y’all need to do is bring some activities here for the kids. There’s Nothing to do in this town unless you Gamble or go clubbing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/smartypart Becky Burns

    they need to stop at wal mart and the market.s and stop people from parking in the handy cap parking spot,s that are not handy cap

  • Anonymous

    I’m glad they list their schedule, now the thugs will know where NOT to go.

  • http://www.natchezdemocrat.com khakirat

    Told the Walmart Security of two cars parked without handicap tag ( in the handicap zones) or signs and the black security woman didn’t do a thing!!

  • vilou09

    I had a problem with this many years ago (non-handicapped people parking in handicap spots in front of a business I worked for). I called the cops (literally three minutes away from the NPD) probably about 5 times and they NEVER once came out. I finally just called them to ask WHY they never did anything about it and they said “it’s private property and we can’t do anything about it”.
    So I’m left wondering what this means… Would Walmart be considered private property, too? What about schools and hospitals? Private property??
    Just what actually DOES fall under the NPD jurisdiction to ticket an illegal handicap spot Parker? I wish someone would tell me!

  • http://www.natchezdemocrat.com khakirat

    Start them in church in church activities for their is plenty to do in Adams county for kids the parents need to keep them busy!! 

  • http://www.natchezdemocrat.com khakirat

    Need to make a phone call to the new police chief and find out from him then report it to the Natchez Democrat to print it so everyone knows is the way to get it done!!! Sound wishy washy to Me!!!

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    I had a problem with this many years ago (non-handicapped people parking in handicap spots in front of a business I worked for). I called the cops (literally three minutes away from the NPD) probably about 5 times and they NEVER once came out. I finally just called them to ask WHY they never did anything about it and they said “it’s private property and we can’t do anything about it”.
    So I’m left wondering what this means… Would Walmart be considered private property, too? What about schools and hospitals? Private property?? Just what actually DOES fall under the NPD jurisdiction to ticket an illegal handicap spot Parker? I wish someone would tell me!

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  • Anonymous

    This truly is absurd!

  • Anonymous

    Floyd cutting hair, Otis in the kalaboose, Barn directing traffic, Ange having apple pie, Da’quantrel selling crack, Trav’darious going through a window, La’ Quistaremia getting a weave, Stanton K. Dunleith in a pickup truck with TE on rear window speeding while texting, Tiffany changing lanes and making turns while chatting on iphone and never touching the turn signal lever. Nine LEOs eating Chinese. BoS and BoA occupying soft chairs giving themselves backpats while accomplishing nothing. Situation normal. FYI this will continue tomorrow and next week. No change in sight.

  • Anonymous

    You hit the nail on the head

  • Anonymous

    jackwabbit- that was AWESOME!!!  And (sadly) so truthful……

  • http://www.natchezdemocrat.com khakirat

    A good time to something illegal huh”!!!

  • Anonymous

    Well, it’s really po-po, but you may be correct.

  • Anonymous

    I agree why would this city spend hundreds of thousands,perhaps millions of dollars on a LA expressway requiring untold hours of labor,materials,etc. to go from Walmart to St. Catherine creek,??? Insanity,,lining their pockets again. Does that superhighway that goes a few hundred yards look strange to anyone else or is it just me. Never saw any thing that looked more out of place in a town without any decent jobs and getting worse..that,s totally ludicrious.It looks as if they took a small overpass from a large town and just put it in the middle of nothing for no sane reason except to cause more wrecks.

  • Anonymous

    It should be on Only in America with Larry the Cableguy.

  • Anonymous

    Put them in the garden about 4 days a week and cutting roadways with a kaiser blade,it worked for us,they would be too tired to roam the streets all night getting in trouble

  • Anonymous

    Well now They have started putting signs up for pregnant women. They are not handicapped. Heck they need to walk

  • Anonymous

    Amen

  • Anonymous

    Attention burglars go where we ain,t stopping.

  • Anonymous

    Media hype about like the top heavy school system that blows millions crying we need more money,they don,t educate half the ones that come,the parents dont want to know,the kids don,t care,and they spend millions on a already free education that most just don,t want or care about,they want to learn to scam,freebies and work the system is what they know with zero respect for adults.

  • Anonymous

    Yea

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