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This Aleutian town has lost its entire police department
The entire police force of Sand Point quit in July, leaving the town without any law enforcement presence.
Sand Point is an Aleutian island town of about 1,000 that swells by several hundred people during the summer commercial fishing and processing season. Until mid-July, it had a police force of three officers and a police chief.
Trouble started around July 10, when the first police officer quit when his military spouse was transferred out of state, said city manager Andy Varner.
Soon after, two police officers — a married couple — resigned from their jobs "to take care of some personal family issues."
Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2017/07/31/entire-sand-point-police-department-quits/
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