To PD or not to PD, that is the question Silver Lake is still trying to answer
The Silver Lake City Council has been discussing the future of police services in the city since the departure of former Police Chief RJ Cripps in December 2019.
Over the last six-plus months, the council has advertised and interviewed for a police chief and discussed a merger with the Lester Prairie Police Department.
The council faced another setback when it learned that current full-time police officer Ian Coates accepted a conditional job offer with the city of Glencoe pending the background investigation. He is expected to leave his position with the city by the end of July.
(For the complete story, see the July 8 print edition of The Chronicle.)