Dayton Police

The Summer Olympics may be over, but the 2024 Paralympics are just getting ready to begin and Dayton Police Officer Byron Branch will be there. Branch lost a leg in the line of duty back in 2016. Now, he’s headed to Paris to compete for gold against the world’s best wheelchair fencers.

Dayton police officers arrested a man, accusing him of handing out food to unhoused people without a permit. This happened on April 7 at Courthouse Square.

The settlement resolves the lawsuit the man filed against Dayton Police alleging his civil rights were violated in November 2022 when two officers handcuffed him and took him to the hospital against his will.

Dayton Police will now only complete a Traffic Crash Report if a death or injury requiring an ambulance occurs, if there is a hit and run, an OVI, or if there is damage to a vehicle that requires it to be towed from the scene.

"No one should be subjected to discriminatory treatment during police interactions," said Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in a news release on its settlement with the Dayton Police Department stemming from the September 2021 arrest of Clifford Owensby.

Lucas Rosales has been missing since Saturday from Eastwood MetroPark.

Police alleged thirty six year old Delandrias Alan Webster fled from the passenger seat of a car they pulled over on Salem Avenue at around 9:00 pm Monday night.

In a split vote, the Dayton City Commission approved the police department’s proposed use of something called a Fusus technology real-time crime center platform at their meeting this week.

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Dayton Police needs help finding 30-year-old Cierra Chapman.

Family Sues Dayton Police; Ohio Constitutional Amendment Change Advances; Wright Patt and Wright State's Research Partnership; Springfield Mayor Stepping Down.

The Dayton Police Department won’t renew its ShotsSpotter contract. That contract is set to expire this December, although police say the department will continue to focus on gun crime and working closely with communities.