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Midway police say no local ICE operations planned; officers to rotate short patrol assignments
Summary
The city’s public safety official told council officers will rotate two‑week patrol assignments to improve coverage and that the department does not conduct separate ICE operations but cooperates with federal partners and has requested advance notification when ICE is active in town.
A Midway public safety official (speaker S7) briefed the council on patrol patterns and federal coordination at the May 19 work meeting.
The official said officers will be assigned on a rotating two‑week schedule to provide more uniform coverage and to allow neighboring officers to back each other up when needed. The rotation is intended to reduce service interruptions and make officer presence more consistent across neighborhoods.
On questions about immigration enforcement, the official said the local department does not routinely conduct independent ICE operations and has no local operations planned; the department will cooperate with ICE when requested, and staff have asked federal partners to provide courtesy notifications when they are in town so local officers can be informed. The official noted this courtesy is voluntary on the federal side but reported a generally cooperative relationship.
