In the best interest of the health and safety of our community, the West Plains Police Department is implementing the following precautionary measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures are in response to the existence of the State of Emergency that exists on both the State and National level as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the recommendations of the CDC.
Effective immediately, West Plains Police will be scaling back on responding to routine medical calls. The police will also take all non-emergency calls for service over the phone including but not limited to:
- Animal Complaints
- Delayed Reporting of Private Property Auto Accidents with no injuries
- Civil Matters
- Forgery/Counterfeit
- Fraud
- Harassment
- Juvenile Problems
- Miscellaneous Ordinance Violations
- Violations not in progress such as Peace Disturbance, Property Damage and Theft
- Other non-emergency calls.
Visitations to individuals within the West Plains Detention Facility have already been prohibited. Access to the Public beyond the Lobby of the Police Department is also prohibited.
Your West Police Officers will still be on patrol and will still respond to calls that are emergencies. However, we will attempt to respect the social distance recommendations made by health officials. If West Plains Police respond to your home, our officers will ask that you meet them on your porch and maintain 6-10 foot minimum distance. This effort is intended to limit officer exposure to potentially infected persons as much as possible while still providing police services and maintaining a healthy police department.
Instead of coming to the station to report any issues, we encourage people to call Dispatch first at 417-256-2244 and to request phone contact from an officer.
In case of emergency, as always, please call 911.
Thank you for understanding and for doing your part to help us prevent COVID-19 in our community by practicing social distancing and limiting in-person contact as much as possible.
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