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Hiram police chief defends department size and crime data amid dissolution debate
Summary
Hiram's police chief told residents the department expanded in recent years to meet rising calls for service and defended low crime rates when accounting for a large daily visitor population; the presentation was given in the same session where residents pressed the council about legislation that could dissolve the city.
Hiram Police Chief presented staffing numbers, crime statistics and calls-for-service trends at a special called City Council meeting, defending the department's size as appropriate for the city's workload.
"You're living in one of the safest communities in the state of Georgia," the chief said, noting that on any given day some 65,000 people visit Hiram and that crime statistics should be viewed in that broader context. The chief said the department's crime rate for the 65,000 daily population is roughly "0.38 per thousand" and that property crime and…
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