Gainesville Police awards ceremony highlights recent heroism
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Gainesville Police Officer Michael Preston only knew the woman’s name, but that didn’t stop him from saving her life.
Drones are not coming to Gainesville.
Gainesville Police Officer Warren Brown accepts an Award of Excellence during the Gainesville Police Department Awards Ceremony at Springhill Missionary Baptist Church on Thursday.
After a Tuesday night traffic accident in southwest Gainesville sent two UF students to the hospital, city officials and local police are looking for a solution to reduce car-pedestrian incidents in the area.
Kelly Gaudet, 51, comforts Maplewood Elementary School second-grader Logan Scott Baird, 7, during a candlelight vigil for Gainesville Police Department officer Scott Baird on Tuesday night on Northwest 16th Terrace.
UF students and Gainesville residents will have the chance to solve crimes with the opening of a crime scene investigations course.
At street corners all over the county, crossing guards stop traffic as they help school children safely cross the road, and on Friday, as part of School Crossing Guard Appreciation Day, it was their day to be thanked.
The Gainesville Police Department and the City of Gainesville created a program to reduce traffic accidents on Southwest 62nd Street.
The abandoned Gainesville Police Department headquarters was demolished this morning as the first step of the building’s reconstruction process.
Gainesville Police Department Headquarters, 721 NW Sixth St., is scheduled to be demolished at 8:30 a.m. The demolition is the first step in the reconstruction process, which will take about one year to complete, said GPD spokesman Officer Ben Tobias.
The Gainesville-Alachua County Drug Task Force arrested two men and recovered drugs, money and guns from a northeast Gainesville home Wednesday.
Recent school shootings cast a spotlight on universities’ security, and UF is no exception.
A man wanted out of Levy County on multiple gun possession and drug charges was arrested Friday afternoon in northwest Gainesville.
Gainesville Police formed a task force Monday dedicated to reducing property theft throughout the city.
Former Gator and current Pittsburgh Steelers running back Chris Rainey was arrested in Gainesville Thursday morning, said Gainesville Police Department spokesman Ben Tobias.
A former city commissioner filed paperwork Friday with the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections to run for mayor, making him the seventh candidate in the race.
Gainesville Police is looking for a man wanted in connection to a string of November motorcycle thefts in southwest Gainesville.
As Alachua County students resumed classes Thursday, city and county law enforcement agencies began stationing officers at local elementary schools to provide extra security for the new year.
Communicating with Gainesville Police is now as simple as sending a text.
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