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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">COMMUNITY INFORMATION</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">June 12, 2023</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Toni Messina
<br />Communications and Outreach Supervisor
<br />Columbia Police Department
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.874.7660
<br />policepio@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Columbia Police to host community meetings in North and South districts, June 26 and 29</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Columbia Police Department invites community members to discuss crime trends and safety issues in their geographic districts. Two meetings are scheduled.</span></p>
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<p><strong>North District (Includes police beats 10, 20, 30 and 40, representing Columbia north of I-70 and part of the area bordered by Providence Road, West Ash Street and Clinkscales Road)</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monday, June 26, 2023 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Community Room, Molly Thomas Bowden Neighborhood Policing Center</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">1204 International Drive</span></p>
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<p><strong>South District (Includes police beats 50, 60, 70 and 80, representing Columbia south of I-70 except for part of the area bordered by Providence Road, West Ash Street and Clinkscales Road)</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thursday, June 29, 2023 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Conference Rooms 1A and B, City Hall</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">701 E. Broadway</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Representatives of the Department’s Patrol and Criminal Investigations bureaus will present information and answer residents’ questions. Because residents are concerned about what happens around them, community conversations with police can create strong partnerships for safer roads, neighborhoods and businesses.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although not required, residents who wish to do so may submit questions in advance to </span><a style="white-space:nowrap" href="mailto:PolicePIO@CoMo.gov"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PolicePIO@CoMo.gov</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;"> and should indicate, in their messages, if they live in the city’s North or South district (see attached map).<br /><br /><a style="white-space:nowrap" href="https://www.como.gov/CMS/pressreleases/downloadfile.php?id=2980">Columbia Police Department District/Beat Map</a><br /></span></p></div>
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