Articles by Jason Broady

We’re receiving more complaints of speeding and reckless driving in the areas of Tunnel Mill Road (our jurisdiction) and in the area of Spring Street from Greenway Park to Highland Drive. If everyone can extra patrol those areas and stop any vehicles who are speeding or driving reckless it would be appreciated.  Just log in CAD under traffic complaint type when you’re out there so we have a log to report back to the citizens how often we’re out there. Chief Kruse

The Charlestown Police Department Neighborhood Watch Program, in partnership with Charlestown’s State Farm Dale Robinson Agency roll out of “DNA for Property” during the 2019 Founders Day Celebration. The Charlestown Police Department is a proactive agency and is always looking for new resources that will help protect the valuables of both the residents and businesses of the community. CHPD plans to use the DNA for Property program to enhance their current efforts with their neighborhood watch and other crime prevention campaigns. “DNA for Property” is a special forensic adhesive that can be applied to all types of valuables. The adhesive is swabbed on an item and will permanently dry clear and invisible to the naked eye. Suspended in the adhesive are thousands of “microscopic dots” .05mm in size, that is smaller than the size of a grain of sand. Chemically etched into the microdot is a unique alpha-numeric PIN (personal…