Reserve Officers, Explorers and CMP’s Assist with Safety and Sobriety Checkpoint

Members of the Palm Beach Gardens Police Reserves, part of our Volunteers In Police Service (VIPS) were on hand last Friday night to assist with the Safety and Sobriety Checkpoint. Also assisting were members of the Police Explorer Post and the Citizens Mobile Patrol.
The checkpoint was conducted from 11:00 PM until 2:00 AM on [...]

CMP Volunteers Provide Free Children’s Fingerprinting

Several members of the Palm Beach Gardens Police Volunteers In Police Service (VIPS) were on had Saturday, August 22nd at Christ Fellowship Church. They were there in support of the church’s annual Health Fair.
Operating outside the church in the Department’s Mobile Command Post, the volunteers took the fingerprints and photos of nearly 60 children [...]

Local Youth Attend Explorer Academy

Six Palm Beach Gardens Police Explorers recently returned from a week long residential career program known as the “Law Enforcement Explorer Academy”.
The programs gave them practical, hands-on law enforcement and life-skills training presented in a structured and highly disciplined environment. Drill Instructor from the West Palm Beach Police Department lead the squads, were in [...]

Volunteers assist with National Night Out 2009

Some 25 volunteers, members of the Department’s “Volunteers In Police Service”, participated in last night’s National Night Out 2009.
America’s Night Out Against Crime involves citizens, law enforcement agencies, fire departments, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials and is designed to:

Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness
Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs
Strengthen [...]