#WhosWhoWednesday
this week is one of our Patrol Officers, Jason Brill! 🚔👮♂️
Officer Brill has been working for OPD for about 6 months, he graduated from the academy earlier this summer, and loves the Oxford community! Officer Brill joins us after serving in the military.
Officer MacKenzie Rogers has dreamt of being a police officer (and a mom) since she was a small child.
Now freshly graduated from Ole Miss’ criminal justice program, Rogers has become the Oxford Police Department’s first ever female K9 officer.
Weather permitting….paving crews will be working on Azalea Drive and West Jackson Avenue between Rebel Drive and Gertrude Ford beginning Monday, July 29. Please use caution when traveling through these areas and use alternate routes if possible.
Officer Gibbons and Officer Carter found Waldo yesterday! 🔴⚪️🔴⚪️🔴
Have you found Waldo at one of the 24 local businesses where he’s hiding? 🔎 Tell us where you found him!
It's getting super close to the
@OxfordSD
school year starting up! Have you mapped your route out yet? 🤔🗺️
🔗 We encourage anybody who will be driving on one of the school campuses to check out this link:
Today's
#WhosWhoWednesday
is SRO Lee Williams! 🏫 Ofc. Williams is an Ole Miss alum and has been with the department for over 5 years. 🚔
Ofc. Williams is CIT certified, a LEAPs member, a CRASE Instructor, in the OPD Honor Guard, and just went through Mounted Patrol school. 🐴
In less than six months, the Oxford Police Department will no longer be divided into a half-dozen cramped locations around the city. The various divisions will be unified under a massive, all-encompassing roof.
🚨Traffic Alert: There has been a water main break on South Lamar near the Courthouse Square.
City departments are working on it currently. The traffic pattern has been modified to accommodate the work. Please use caution or utilize an alternative route.
We were able to have archaeologist Dr. Jay Johnson meet us on site this morning. Dr. Johnson identified the bones as those belonging to a cow. In fact, a cow that had been butchered. So, the project goes on. 3/3
Immediately, the contractor ceased work and contacted city officials. The remains were located under the asphalt in an area of the project commonly known as the City Grocery Parking Lot and were located approximately 12” to 18” deep. 2/3
Because no two days are ever the same in this job…I want to share the details of this morning. Late afternoon, yesterday, July 18, the contractor employed by the
@cityofoxford
for the Downtown Regional Detention Project unearthed what the contractor identified as bones. 1/3