This holiday season, The Galena Police Department will be partnering with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for the national Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving awareness campaign to help keep impaired drivers off the road. Help us spread the message!
Are you on Santa’s naughty or nice list? Always designate a
sober driver to get you home safely after drinking so you don’t wind up with
coal in your stocking — or worse. Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving.
Keep track of those eggnogs! Even one drink can be one too many. Plan for a sober driver to get you home safely. Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving.
Commit to sober driving this holiday season, and every day. Help us
spread the message: Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving.
Keep the holidays merry and bright: This holiday season, and
every day, stay safe by refusing to drink and drive. Remember: Buzzed
Driving Is Drunk Driving.
If you are buzzed, you are already too drunk to drive home.
Even one drink can be one too many if you’re getting behind the wheel of a
vehicle. Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving.
During December 2017, 885 people lost their lives in traffic
crashes involving a drunk driver. Always remember: Buzzed Driving Is
Drunk Driving.
Keep your cash for your holiday shopping, not for a
drunk-driving arrest. A DUI can set you back $10,000 in court costs, lost time
at work, car towing, and more. Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving.
In 2017, an average of one person was killed in a
drunk-driving crash every 48 minutes. This holiday, and every day, remember: Buzzed
Driving Is Drunk Driving.
Just like drunk driving, drug-impaired driving is also dangerous and illegal, and it’s an increasing problem on our nation’s roads. Always remember: If You Feel Different, You Drive Different.
During the evening hours of November 5, 2019, Officers with the Galena Police Department served a Search Warrant at 1103 Joplin St. in Galena Ks.
During the search suspected Marijuana and Methamphetamine were
discovered.
37-year-old Jason A. Charles, 38-year-old Brandi L. King,
and 30-year-old Guy A. Hibdon were taken into custody and transported to the
Cherokee County Jail. Charles and King are
being held on a $5,000.00 bond for Possessing Methamphetamine and Marijuana. In
addition to a $3,000.00 bond for Possessing Methamphetamine, Hibdon was found
to have Warrant from another Jurisdiction.
This investigation is ongoing and additional charges may be requested.
The City of Galena, KS is looking for professional, self-motivated, community oriented, individuals to apply for Police Administrative Clerk.
The applicant must be organized professionals with strong skills in solving office problems and managing records. They must be able to maintain an efficient filing system for a police agency’s administrative, criminal, and personnel records. This person also needs prioritizing skills to execute day-to-day tasks in order of importance or urgency, discharge their duties with integrity, and deal with the public in a pleasant and tactful manner.
Applicants must successfully complete a preliminary
background check. Have ability to communicate well in person, over the phone
and the radio with public and other Law Enforcement employees. Applicants
recommended for hire will be required to successfully complete a post offer
drug screen, written, psychological, and physical exams.
OBTAINING AN
APPLICATION:
Apply at the City Clerk’s Office, 210 W 7th Street, Galena, KS or print an Application Form, Addendum to Employment Application, Authorization to Release Information from the City Web Site: www.galenaks.gov and/or mail resume to: City of Galena, c/o Human Resource Dept., 210 Turner Drive, Galena, KS 66739 or email resume to police@galenaks.gov.
The City of Galena is an Equal Opportunity Employer
The Galena Police Department will join 190 other local and state
police agencies across Kansas in a crackdown aimed at removing drunk and other
drugged drivers from the roadways. You Drink. You Drive. You
Lose., is underwritten by the Kansas Department of Transportation
(KDOT).
According to Chief Charles, this campaign is intended to remind
drivers of several things:
If you are planning on going out to drink, make a designated
driver a substantial part of this plan.
Check your medications for any driving/operating warnings. A
prescription is for medication; it is not a permission slip to drive.
Think of a family you know – maybe your own – and consider how
you would feel if your decision to drink and drive was the cause of serious
injury or death.
A DUI arrest can cost you thousands of dollars.
We are asking all citizens on the roadways – drivers and
passengers, alike – to watch for suspicious driving behaviors. Note location,
a description of the suspect vehicle, and its direction of
travel and call 911 as soon as it’s safe to do so. You
may save a life.
You can count on this department to vigorously enforce impaired
driving and other traffic laws – not just during this campaign but throughout
the year.
Always remember that the best protection against an impaired
driver (even when it’s yourself) is the use of seat belts and
appropriate child restraints – every trip, every time.
Restraints save lives and reduce injury severity across a wide range of driving
mistakes and mishaps.
Beginning on Monday, May 20,
and continuing through Sunday, June 2, travelers can expect increased police
presence on city streets as the Galena Police Department joins 180 other law
enforcement agencies in aggressively enforcing Kansas occupant restraint and
other traffic laws as part of the 2019 Kansas Click It or Ticket
campaign. This activity is supported by a
grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT). Enforcement will occur around the clock
because seatbelt use diminishes after nightfall, meaning the likelihood of unbelted
crash injuries and deaths soars during those hours.
Drivers will be confronted
with strict enforcement of both the Kansas Safety Belt Use Act and the Kansas Child
Passenger Safety Act. These statutes
require that all vehicle occupants must be appropriately restrained. Law enforcement officers can stop vehicles and
issue tickets when they observe occupants riding unrestrained or without proper
restraint. Occupants, ages 14 and over,
are cited individually. If a passenger
under the age of 14 is observed to be unrestrained the driver will be
cited. The fine for an adult (18+) seat belt
violation is $30. The fine for a youth
(14-17) violation is $60, while the fine for a child (0-13) restraint violation
is $60 plus a court cost charge of $111.00.
Children under the age of
four must be correctly secured in an approved child safety seat. Children, ages four through seven, must be securely
belted into an approved booster seat unless taller than 4 feet 9 inches or
heavier than 80 pounds, in which case, the booster may be removed, and the
child belted in without it. Children,
ages eight through 13, must be safety-belted.
In addition, Kansas law prohibits persons under the age of 14 from
riding in any part of a vehicle not intended for carrying passengers, such as a
pickup bed. For answers to child safety
restraint questions and the location of the nearest safety seat fitting station,
or safety seat technician, contact the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office at
1-800-416-2522, or write ktsro@dccca.org.
The aim of Click It or Ticket is simple:
to drastically reduce the number of preventable deaths and injuries that
occur when unbelted drivers and passengers are involved in traffic crashes. About 345 persons are involved in 170 crashes
each day in Kansas. According to KDOT ninety-three
percent of them are buckled in. As for
those who are not strapped in, only 7% of them are likely to escape without
injury. While seat belts may not always
prevent from serious or fatal injury, certainly no other piece of equipment
within the vehicle provides more protection.
Kansas’ overall adult seat belt
compliance rate is 84% and ranges, by county, from 71% to 96%, with occupants
in rural counties generally less likely to buckle up than those in urban
counties. According to KDOT, this rural-urban
difference in rates of buckling up is especially problematic because rural
roadway conditions are, in general, less forgiving than those in urban areas,
and the consequences of driver misjudgment – such as unsafe speed and failure
to buckle up – are likely to be more severe in the event of a crash. It is easy to see why almost two-thirds of
Kansas’ fatality crashes occur on rural roadways while these roads account for only
one-third of all crashes.
As for child passenger safety,
Kansans like to see their state as one which protects children, and it does well
with its youngest ones. Overall, those aged
0-4, are buckled in to child safety seats at the rate of 97%. However, only 87% of 5- to 14-year olds are
properly restrained. This means that 1
out of 8 Kansas children, aged 5-14, are made especially vulnerable while
traveling by the failure of their drivers to restrain them. In 70% of those cases the driver is also
unbelted.
According to Chief Billy
Charles, “I want people in the city of Galena to remember that when they don’t
buckle up themselves, or require their passengers to buckle up, they are, in
effect, promising themselves and those passengers, as well as family and
friends, that no circumstance will arise that will activate seat belts,
whether it be chemical impairment, distraction, sleepiness, kids fighting in
the back seat, etc. either in their own vehicle or in the other vehicles they
meet on the road.
“I want people to know that, day or night, The
Galena Police Department is committed to aggressively ticketing violators of adult
seat belt and child safety laws, as well as other traffic infractions, which
make the need for occupant restraint so necessary. The stop will be inconvenient, your vehicle
and driver’s license numbers will likely be checked for outstanding warrants
and insurance, and you’ll pay at least $30 to the court. So, use your belt and save yourself the
trouble.”
As a result of an ongoing investigation by the Galena Police Department; Friday, April 12, 2019 at approximately 7:30 am, Officers with the Galena Police Department and the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office served a Search Warrant at 1005 E. 5th St. Galena, KS.
During the search officers discovered four young children in
the residence along with suspected Methamphetamine, Marijuana and drug
paraphernalia.
Dustin Bates 12/28/1984 and Adrian Valentine 03/26/1991 were
taken into custody and transported to the Cherokee County Jail.
Charges are being requested through the Cherokee County Attorney’s
Office for:
Dustin Bates: Possession of Methamphetamine, Possession of
Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and four counts Child Endangerment.
He is being held on $15,000.00 bond.
Adrian Valentine: Possession of Methamphetamine and
Harboring a Pitbull. She is being held on $3000.00 bond.
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