The community and law enforcement gathered together to remember those Seattle Police officers who gave the ultimate sacrifice at a ceremony this afternoon at Forest Lawn Cemetery.  Here are a few photos from this afternoon’s event.  Photos are courtesy of David Rosen – SlickPix Photography – West Seattle Herald.

The 2012 Seattle Police Memorial Remembrance will take place this afternoon at 1:00 pm at Forest Lawn Cemetery in West Seattle.  The memorial ceremony honors the sacrifices of our fallen Seattle Police officers. This is the fourth annual ceremony held in Seattle, and it shows local support for Seattle Police officers as part of National Police Week [...]

Here are the totals from Saturday’s National Drug Take Back Day event at the Seattle Police Department precincts only.  Regional and national figures are still being tabulated.  From 10:00 am until 2:00 pm on Saturday, April 28th, people dropped off expired,  unwanted or unused prescription medications at the five Seattle Police Department precincts.  Here are [...]

The following is a repost from a Mayor’s Office press release: On Tuesday, May 1st, several organizations will be holding public demonstrations in Seattle.  This will include an annual May Day March for Immigrant and Workers Rights from Judkins Park to downtown Seattle, an Occupy Seattle-sponsored General Strike, and rallies scheduled throughout the day at Westlake [...]

On April 28 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm 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 [...]

The Seattle Police Department is in the training and evaluation stages of deploying an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).  Since first exploring the possibilities and advantages of an unmanned aerial program to the present day, nothing has changed substantively.  The possible use of a UAV by SPD has been in the news for quite a while [...]

In the last week, Seattle police officers responded to 8,005 incidents across the city. Not every one them made it to the Blotter, but here are some of the highlights from the last seven days: Last weekend started out with a bang after someone fired off several shots on 2nd Avenue and Stewart Street around 8pm [...]

On 4/6/2012, members from the Seattle Police Department participated in a charity basketball event in an effort to help raise funds for a local food bank and the Ballard High School football program. The department members who participated in this event did so on their own time as a way to give back and to do their [...]

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to raise awareness about child abuse and neglect. The Seattle Police Department is the lead agency for the Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The task force is made up of local, state and federal law enforcement agencies working to identify, arrest and convict [...]

The Ford Crown Victoria—the police department’s standard-issue patrol cruiser for nearly the last 20 years—will soon join the Plymouth Fury, Dodge Diplomat, and Studebaker horse-drawn carriage in that great SPD squad car scrap heap in the sky. Ford has retired the Crown Victoria model, and the department is now testing six different vehicles — the [...]