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Cleves Village residents call on council to restore local policing to enforce ordinances
Summary
Residents urged the Cleves Village Council to reinstate a local police presence or marshal to enforce ordinances, citing speeding, noise and animal-control problems; council members said code updates are underway and new ordinances will be placed on future agendas but no formal action was recorded.
Cleves Village residents urged the village council during public comment to restore a local police presence or marshal so ordinances can be enforced, saying recent lapses in enforcement have left neighborhoods unsafe.
At a public-comment period, Andrew Nixon, a resident, said: "Now that they've been gone, you can see the effect. I mean, we really we need the police back." Several other residents described speeding, persistent noise at night and animals running loose as problems they want addressed.
The call for restored local enforcement included appeals for some form of marshal or village-based officers who could issue citations for local ordinance violations that residents say the county does not enforce. "We have people that have dogs running around without leashes on, terrorizing other people's dog," Dakota Jennings said, describing repeated…
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