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The Vallejo Police Department Community Services Section will hold a free monthly workshop for residents. The Citizen Workshop will feature various guest speakers on an array of subjects. They are set from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month at the CSS headquarters, 2 Florida St. They are free, but have a limit of 30 people. The next workshop on Aug. 6 is a hands-on class on self defense led by Sgt. Joe Iocano. Those interested should wear comfortable clothing to move in. ...

The Vallejo Police Department received a $2,000 donation Wednesday to be added to the pool of funds to purchase a new police dog The donation was made by the Vallejo Elks Lodge through a grant from the Elks National Foundation, which is a fraternal order and charitable foundation. "We feel like in our community there's too much negative, and we want to bring more positive," past president Ed Malone said. "We'd like to boost up the police department." Malone and another member wrote the $2...

In high school, Jodi Brown had a choice: Stay with her abusive uncle and brother, or return to the foster care system in which she had already spent many years. For Brown, the decision was easy, and she picked up the phone and called her social worker to ask for a placement in a group home. "I told her I'd rather be there than be with my family," Brown said Saturday during a fundraising luncheon for Foster Greatness, a Vallejo-based program aimed at building support structures around vulner...

The Vallejo Police Department launched a new program Wednesday called Project V-Cam, which they say could give them better access to private surveillance cameras to help solve crimes. The project asks residents and businesses with private cameras to partner with police and register their cameras with the department. "Our goal with that is to catalog and know where all the privately owned cameras are throughout Vallejo," said Captain James O'Connell, of the Vallejo Police Department. Vall...

Police are searching for a suspect who reportedly fired several shots at California Highway Patrol officers early Sunday morning, according to a Vallejo Police Department press release. The CHP officers were not injured. The incident began at 12:51 a.m. when Vallejo police received a request for help from the Solano County California Highway Patrol. A highway patrol unit had made a traffic stop of a gray Buick Park Avenue on the street north of the Chevron station at 199 Lincoln Road West...

Vallejo Police Press ReleaseLt. John WhitneyOperation Safe Net False Imprisonment On March 22, 2014, at 4:28 P.M., Operation Safe Net Officers were patrolling the area of the 200 block of Arkansas due to complaints of drug sales. Officers attempted to contact Anthony Pratt. Pratt ran on foot from the Officers, jumping several fences during his escape. Officers set up a perimeter around the area and began searching for Pratt. During the search, a female victim flagged down an Officer and r...

Vallejo Police Press ReleaseCaptain James O'ConnellCommunity Service Section Open House In an effort to strengthen relationships with the community, the Vallejo Police Department (VPD) will open its doors on Saturday, March 29, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Community Service Section Headquarters located at 2 Florida St. The Community Service Section was created to work in close collaboration with neighborhood groups, City of Vallejo Code Enforcement, the Ci...