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  1. Feb 20, 2024 · Posted on February 20, 2024 by Christy Edwards. Asheville City Manager Debra Campbell is pleased to announce that Mike Lamb, who has served as the Interim Police Chief since December 2023, has accepted the permanent position of Police Chief.

  2. The Asheville Police Department is committed to being the leading professional, forward-thinking, progressive, and community-focused police department in the State of North Carolina. We are united in partnership with our community and city in our commitment to addressing crime, violence, and quality of life issues through modern, evidence-based ...

    • Response Time Impacted by Resignations, Retirements
    • Reasons Behind Officer Shortage
    • How City Council Views The Issue and Their Response
    • Recruiting Struggles
    • Mountain Law Enforcement Agencies Vacancies and Efforts to Recruit
    • NC and Other Cities Impacted by Police Resignations and Retirments

    News 13 investigated the department’s response times to crime now versus a year ago. Currently, they’ve averaging an extra four minutes for the most serious calls, nearly 10 minutes for priority 2 calls which includes assaults, and an extra 38 minutes for priority 3 calls. With the shortage,officers won’t respond to crimes without a suspect. “You c...

    “What are some of the reasons?” News 13 questioned the police chief. “We know there’s a compensation issue,” said Chief Zack. “We do exit interviews with every single employee, and a lot of it just boils down to support.” “When you say support is that support from the community itself or is that support from city government too?” questioned News 13...

    News 13 sat down with Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer. “There is consensus around, lLook, does change need to happen? Yes, change needs to happen," Manheimer said. "Do we defund the police department to make that happen? No, we don’t defund the police department to make that happen. We need to make sure our community’s safe, we need to make sure t...

    News 13 caught up with dedicated new recruits up early, at 6:30 a.m. in downtown Asheville, pounding and prepping for the physical abilities test. In 2020, recruiting struggled. “We graduated six officers, only one is still with the department," Police Chief Zack said. "Five left, that we invested almost a year in and five left before they actually...

    News 13 reached out to a number of area law enforcement agencies with five questions about vacancies and recruiting officers. News 13 asked the following: 1. Is your law enforcement department fully staffed? 2. If you answered no to #1, How many officers short are you and in which divisions? 3. What's causing any officer shortages your department i...

    News 13 reached out to several cities across the state and the country seeing a significant loss of police officers. Here's some of the data we received from those who responded: Concord, NC The City of Concord has an authorized strength of 195 sworn officers with their department according to their Public Information Officer. They have 4 double sl...

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  5. Jun 1, 2021 · Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven. Asheville Citizen Times. At the City Council meeting on May 25, Director of Finance Tony McDowell presented a budget for the next fiscal year to the council that...

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