​The Bellefontaine Police Department is pleased to announce our next round of testing for the position of Police Officer. 

In order to be eligible to proceed in our process, you must first take the online exam through the National Testing Network.  This online registration process is managed by NTN itself, and not managed by the City of Bellefontaine.  Each candidate must register themselves on the NTN website at the Bellefontaine Police Department location on their site.  After you have successfully passed the written online exam, you must be sure to follow their process to send us your scores.  Then, you must have also completed our application.  Applications and NTN tests must be completed and returned to the Bellefontaine Police Department by Friday, May 27, 2022 at 4:00 PM to be eligible.  Applications are available online here, or by stopping by our agency at 135 North Detroit Street, Bellefontaine, Ohio 43311.  We can also send you an electronic version upon an email request.  Applications may be notarized by our agency, upon request while you’re in-person.

Those who successfully apply and successfully pass the NTN test will participate in the physical agility testing.  Two practices will be available on June 3 and June 8.  The actual test is Friday, June 10, 2022 at 12:00 PM, at the Logan County Fairgrounds. 

If you have any questions about our process, please contact Lieutenant Scott Marlow at smarlow@ci.bellefontaine.oh.us or by calling (937) 599-1010.

The Bellefontaine Police Department is taking an active role in preventing and solving crime by installing Flock Safety Automated License Plate Reading (ALPR) cameras.
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Flock Safety ALPR cameras help law enforcement investigate crime by providing objective evidence that can be transformed into actionable leads. They capture license plates and vehicle characteristics, not people or faces.

Bellefontaine Police Department will use the Flock Safety system for both proactive and reactive crime fighting. The ALPR network delivers real-time alerts to law enforcement when a stolen or wanted vehicle has passed a camera. The license plate readers can also alert officers if a vehicle associated with a missing person in an AMBER or Silver Alert is detected. When investigating a crime, Flock Safety cameras detect and decode objective leads for law enforcement using Vehicle FingerprintTM technology, which identifies the make, vehicle type, color, license plate (full, partial, or missing), license plate state, and unique vehicle features like roof rack, trailer hitch, tinted windows, and more.

“This technology will help keep our community safer. Without a doubt, this system will provide the needed support our patrol officers need on a daily basis. We’re excited to launch this soon and begin utilizing it,” said Chief Brandon Standley of the Bellefontaine Police Department.

Flock Safety cameras are not used for traffic enforcement and do not include facial recognition capabilities. The data is never sold or shared with third parties, and every search conducted by the system requires an auditable search justification. The footage is securely stored in the cloud and automatically deleted every 30 days, by default.
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About Flock Safety
Flock Safety is the first public safety operating system that powers 1,500 cities to capture objective evidence, make it actionable with machine learning, and deliver it directly into the hands that stop crime. Flock Safety cameras have been shown to reduce crime by up to 70%. Visit www.flocksafety.com for more information.

Each April, National Public Safety Telecommunications Week is celebrated to honor the men and women who serve in the capacity of a dispatcher. This year, the week of April 10-16 we will honor our police dispatchers who do an incredible job of serving our citizens each and every day. Too often, citizens do not realize how much effort goes into the logistics of police and EMS dispatching. Their actions save lives and helps to organize emergency response.

We have provided this awesome video for you to watch in their honor. Please view it and consider how important our police dispatchers are to our City.
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We thank Horvath Productions for their talents in making this a big success!