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Webster Groves police outline community education event, new bike unit and staffing progress
Summary
Police Chief Vincent Simmons updated the Police-Community Engagement Board on recent on-duty incidents, a planned late-spring community education event, a new bike team slated for early summer and staffing promotions and hiring progress.
Webster Groves Police Chief Vincent Simmons told the Police‑Community Engagement Board that the department is preparing a late‑spring community education event and plans to launch a bicycle patrol team by early summer as part of a broader community‑policing push.
Simmons said the department is entering budget planning for fiscal 2026 (July–June) while continuing investigations into a recent on‑duty crash that investigators later linked to a medical emergency for an officer. "We released information when we could. We did our due diligence," Simmons said, adding that detectives and patrol are working with the prosecutor's office and other partners and that the…
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