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Northlake police report: priority-1 response, training and mental-health calls rise; department adds detectives and lateral hires
Summary
The police chief presented the department's 2024 operations and support-division report to the council, highlighting increases in calls for service and training, three pursuits, seven uses of force, staffing additions and ongoing efforts on mental-health response.
Northlake’s police chief told the Town Council on Feb. 13 that the department’s workload increased in 2024, with high-priority response times and a rising share of welfare and mental-health calls driving operational demands.
The chief reported about 799 priority‑1 calls for the year and said priority‑1 response times averaged about 7 minutes, 12 seconds; he noted the dataset is smaller for priority‑1 calls compared with lower-priority calls. The department recorded three pursuits in 2024 and seven uses of force, which included two taser deployments and three incidents involving firearms pointed at subjects, according to the chief’s summary.
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