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Some Small Missouri Communities Disband Police Departments

Ben Skirvin
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WFIU

  Some small northwest Missouri towns are deciding it's too expensive to run police departments.

Officials in Mosby voted earlier this month to disband the police department and pay Clay County sheriff's deputies to respond to calls. Mayor Harlin Clements said the town of about 200 residents couldn't afford such things as police cars, repairs and uniforms.

The Kansas City Star reports Mosby joins other Clay County towns paying the sheriff's departments for security, including Missouri City, Glenaire and Avondale. The town of Holt will begin using county deputies September 1st.

Richard Sheets is the deputy director of the Missouri Municipal League.

He said several Missouri towns use county officers and that sometimes it works out and other times it doesn't because it's dependent on the quality of officers involved

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