On October 27th, 2011, Lieutenant Debie King, head of the Department’s Domestic Violence Unit, was honored at the King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s 12th Annual awards reception.  From the awards program: Norm Maleng Public Policy and Systems Change Award Recipient                                           Lieutenant Debie King Lt. Debie King of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) is [...]

The Seattle Police Department wishes Seattle residents a Happy Halloween and offers the following Halloween safety measures to parents whose ghouls and goblins will be making the rounds on Monday, October 31st. • Don’t allow children to go “Trick or Treating” alone.  An adult should accompany young children and make sure that all children carry [...]

From Public Health-Seattle & King County: Extra DUI enforcement out this weekend in King and Pierce counties Extra law enforcement will be out in King and Pierce counties this Halloween weekend looking for impaired drivers. Halloween weekend has historically been a dangerous time on local roads due to the high number people driving under the [...]

On October 28th, at approximately 6:45 am, South Precinct officers responded to a call of a home invasion robbery in the 4600 Block of South Henderson Street.  According to the victim, two suspects armed with handguns kicked in the front door of the residence and struck the resident in the head with an unknown object.  The [...]

This morning, October 28th, officers from the Aggressive Driver Response Team (ADRT) conducted enforcement on the West Seattle Bridge during the morning commute.  Between 6:00 am and 8:00 am, officers issued the following citations: 1 at 103 mph  (motorcycle traveling westbound, the driver said he was late for work – the bridge is a 45 [...]

On 10/27/11, at approximately 1000 p.m., an adult female was involved in a single vehicle collision at 80th and 16th Av NW. The details of the collision are unknown at the time of this posting. However, the vehicle ended up on it’s side and the single female occupant had to be extracated from the vehicle [...]

                 On October 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Seattle Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.  Bring your medications for disposal to any one of the five Seattle Police [...]

On October 25th at around 12:30 p.m., East Precinct patrol officers responded to a report of identity theft at a hotel in the 1100 block of Broadway.  The adult male victim was waiting for police in the hotel lobby after getting a call from his credit card company informing him that someone had used his [...]

This morning, at approximately 9:17 am, a woman stabbed a male in the arm and back of the neck over a reported drug dispute in the 200 Block of Pike Street.   The injuries to the male victim are not considered life threatening.  The victim was treated at the scene by Seattle Fire, and the [...]

The King County WA VINE system is a service through which victims of crime can use the telephone or Internet to search for information regarding the custody status of their offender and to register to receive telephone and e-mail notification when the offender’s custody status changes. The VINE toll-free number for the King County WA [...]