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The Post Falls Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance with locating Angela Dawn Simpson – aka Angela Walker or Angela Dunning – who has been reported as a missing person.

Angela, age 42, was last seen at her residence on Maranatha Drive in Post Falls on the morning of May 15, 2013 at approximately 9:30 a.m. At 2:30 p.m., it was discovered that she was gone from the residence. She had no known access to a vehicle at the time.

The Post Falls Police Department has teamed up with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and hundreds of other law enforcement agencies across the nation in a seatbelt emphasis from May 20, 2013 to June 2, 2013.

Over a hundred participants from Idaho and Washington attended a one-day training, Enhancing Response to Domestic Violence, hosted by The Post Falls Police Victim Services Unit on May 9, 2013.

A group of kayakers searching for 70-year-old Joan Gundlach found her in the Spokane River near Pleasantview Road on April 26, 2013. Gundlach was recovered by divers from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office. No details about the cause of death are being released at this time, pending further investigation and an autopsy scheduled for this week.

Per the Idaho Department of Transportation, studded snow tires are only legal from October 1 to April 30. Now is the time to remove them from your vehicle as law enforcement will issue citations to anyone in violation of the state code.

This year’s National Volunteer Week is April 21 – 27, 2013, celebrating ordinary people doing extraordinary things to improve communities across the nation. This week highlights the enormous contributions that volunteers make every day.

Post Falls Chief of Police Scot Haug formally presented Patrol Officer Lianna Boni with the Life Saving Award during the Post Falls City Council meeting on March 6, 2013.

On February 22, 2013, The Post Falls Police Department received the 2012 Business of the Year award from Kootenai County Fire and Rescue during their annual awards banquet at Templin’s in Post Falls.

The Post Falls Police Department needs your eyes in our community to help solve two separate, but seemingly unrelated crime sprees.  Read more……

Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh announced on Thursday, November 3, that a Kootenai County Grand Jury returned two four count indictments charging Amber Marie Clark, (28 YOA) and Jeremy Michael Clark (36 YOA), both of Post Falls, for their actions in relation to the death of two year old Karina Moore, as well as injuries sustained to another child. The indictments charge two counts of injury to child, one count of conspiracy to conceal evidence and one count of perjury.

Evidence Technology Magazine published an article entitled Caught on Camera outlining in car video trends across the nation. The article spotlights the cutting edge technology the Post Falls Police Department is using for both in car and body worn video recording equipment.

Medication Turn In

Join us on April 27th, 2013, at Post Falls City Hall,  408 N. Spokane St., for the National Take Back Initiative.  Turn-in your unwanted prescription drugs to be disposed of properly...no questions asked.  Read on for more details.

LPR Camera

The Kootenai County License Plate Recognition Project was spotlighted, outlining the success the program has experienced since its inception.

In the past decade, law enforcement has come to rely on technology to assist in the location of stolen vehicles and the apprehension of auto theft suspects. Police Departments are starting to recognize the true value of technology in helping them do their jobs.

One such emerging technology is called License Plate Recognition or LPR. This technology has been used successfully in the United Kingdom since 1992, when it was developed by Cambridge University. The technology came to the United States and was first tested in a law enforcement application in 2004. Although LPR is fairly new in the law enforcement field, the technology has been used in the United States in a variety of commercial applications for several years. For example: in restricted areas, corporate businesses have used LPR for vehicular access control. LPR technology reads the vehicle license plate of an employee arriving for work and verifies the plate against a database of employees. If approved, the system allows the vehicle entry into the employee parking lot.

Most recently, LPR has become a valuable tool for law enforcement in the struggle to reduce crime, apprehend suspects and recover stolen vehicles. The implementation of the License Plate Recognition (LPR) system within the local law enforcement agencies technology tool bag has proved to be beneficial beyond our expectations. Some in the industry refer to LPR as the best tool to come to law enforcement since DNA technology.

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The employees were all recognized with the Mayors Medal, as well as, the Post Falls Police Department Life Saving Award.

Mayor Larkin thanked each employee for their service and congratulated them on receiving this award.

The Post Falls Police Department has been experiencing a spike in investigations involving juvenile sexting. This dangerous activity involves taking nude, or partially nude, cell phone photographs of one's self and text messaging the photographs to other persons. Most commonly, juveniles in dating relationships send these photographs to each other, but often these photographs get sent to third-parties after the couple breaks up.

The Post Falls Police Department would like to alert the public about a recent announcement made by Idaho Gov. Butch Otter.  The governor has announced that on Friday, October 15, 2010, he will sign a temporary rule into law banning "Spice", a synthetic form of marijuana.  Upon his signature, Spice will be considered a controlled substance in the State of Idaho. Multiple other states are taking similar measures.