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The Cleveland Police Department was recognized Tuesday during an awards breakfast hosted by the Tennessee Municipal League (TML). An award for Excellence in Police Service was presented to Chief of Police Mark Gibson, accompanied by Assistant Chief of Police Stacy Smith and Cleveland City Manager Joe Fivas on behalf of the Cleveland Police Department.
The Cleveland Police Department (CPD) has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) since 2009. In 2012, the CPD was accredited by the Tennessee Law Enforcement Accreditation (TLEA). These organizations assess the department’s policies and procedures for best practices. Participation with these agencies is voluntary and only 4% of law enforcement agencies nationwide are accredited by CALEA. In 2018, CPD achieved the Gold Standard of Excellence, which is recognized as the highest award within CALEA. This achievement includes the Cleveland Police Department in the 1% of CALEA accredited agencies who achieve the gold standard. This achievement is acquired by complying with all written directives, applicable by the Cleveland Police Department and set forth by CALEA. The department is scheduled to be reaccredited by both accreditation agencies in 2022.
A group of Tennessee lawmakers are asking for the public’s input on community needs and political districts.
Tennessee Rep. Yusuf Hakeem (D-Chattanooga), Sen. Jeff Yarbro (D-Nashville) and Rep. Vincent Dixie (D-Nashville) are hosting an online public meeting Thursday, Sept. 23 at 12n EST.
The focus of the meeting will be on community districting, also referred to as redistricting or reapportionment, which happens every 10 years after the U.S. Census.
Federal census officials release data showing the population of every county, city and town in the nation, which helps to determine how to draw state and federal district boundaries.
The Chattanooga community districting meeting is the second in a series of public meetings being hosted by Democrats in the Tennessee General Assembly. In the coming weeks, lawmakers will also host public meetings in Nashville and Memphis, among other places.
After seeing a decline in COVID-19 case rates last week, Tennessee is second in the nation for positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 persons.
The data contained in the weekly State Profile Report is provided by the White House COVID-19 team and Department of Health and Homeland Security. According to the latest report for the week of September 17, Tennessee has a rate of 764 cases per 100,000 persons, and increase of 48% compared to the previous week’s report. The rate is also higher than the reporting for September 3 which ranked the state worst in the nation with 739 per 100,000.
Compared to the previous week’s reporting, the rate of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 has also increased from 3.3 per 100,000 to 6 per 100,000. Both the rise in cases and death rate are nearly or more than double the national average. The death rate reflects an 84% increase week-over-week.
However, more recent data provided by the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) shows as of September 19, the 7 day average of new cases has dropped to 5,245 which is a sharp decline from the 9,416 on September 11, a number which was boosted by 15,095 new cases reported in one day on September 10th. Hospitalizations remain high according to both TDH and the White House, TDH reporting 3,243 hospitalizations as of September 20 compared to the recent high of 3,831 on September 9. The WH State Profile reports a rate of 14.1 hospitalizations per 100 beds, an 8% drop compared to the previous week.
