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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Interim Police Chief to Evaluate Policing Model for City

Mayor also asks Interim Police Chief Larry Stulce to evaluate possible return to the St. Charles County SWAT program. The city restarted its own SWAT team in 2011.

Interim Police Chief Larry Stulce will spend the next few months evaluating the Police Department's organization and consider a possible return to participating in the St. Charles County's SWAT team.  Stulce was hired in May for a six-month period while the city conducts a search for a replacement police chief.  However, Faith has asked Stulce to examine whether a two-district policing model is the best organization for the city and to examine a return to the county SWAT program.  "His experience in St. Louis and St. Louis County is certainly very valuable and he'll bring that experience to look at this," she said. "It's information gathering." Faith said Stulce is examining a range of issues, some of which were concerns raised by police …

David C. Couper

11:07 am on Wednesday, July 25, 2012

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Monday, December 6, 2010

St. Charles City Police Restart SWAT Team

City will pay $10,000 in upfront costs to its own special weapons and tactics team.

St. Charles City Police Department has pulled five police officers out of the countywide SWAT and is in the process of restarting its own special weapons and tactics team.  The move will cost the city at least $10,000 in start-up costs and cost more than $6,000 annually. The St. Charles Police Department had been part of the St. Charles County Regional SWAT team since 2004. The county SWAT also includes officers from the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department and the St. Peters, O'Fallon, Lake Saint Louis and Wentzville police departments. The SWAT's duties include serving search warrants in potentially violent situations, arresting heavily-armed suspects and responding to stand-offs. St. Charles City had its own SWAT from 1980 until …

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