Police

The agency will also rework testing requirements following a two-year investigation by the federal government into hiring practices.

Chief of Police Branville Bard Jr. said it will take years for the full 100-person force to be in place. The department released policies regulating its operation last week.

We’ll go On the Record with a look at alternative responses to 911 calls. Instead of police, health care workers are dispatched to behavioral health incidents. Can this improve community trust? How is this approach working in Baltimore?

One message was clear among dozens of the residents who braved the Monday night rain to meet Worley at a church in Park Heights: Baltimore needs a police force invested in its communities.

Interim Commissioner Richard Worley told councilmembers last month the report would take 45 days. The department says they will need more time.

Critical staffing shortages are preventing police from spending enough time getting to know the neighborhoods they patrol, a roadblock to regaining community trust, report finds.

In an interview, former Commissioner Michael Harrison, Mayor Brandon Scott and Acting Commissioner Richard Worley provide new details about the events leading to the transfer of power.

Police will no longer be able to use the suspected smell of cannabis as the sole reason for a search of vehicles

We’ll go On the Record with a look at District Action Teams in the Baltimore Police Department. We speak with a journalist about how these police units fit into the BPD’s history of plainclothes policing. Plus, Commissioner Michael Harrison on the surge in gun violence involving youth.

“The Taser program has been an instrument for us in making sure we have more effective means by which to handle an escalatory incident… without the use of deadly force.”