Police officers are invited to come to Hurricane Creek Elementary School in Bryant on Tuesday, to be celebrated by Mrs. Hannah Stringer’s class. It’s National Police Week and on May 14th from 8:30 until 9:30 a.m., the kids want to treat officers to donuts, juice, and a big “Thank You!” The address is 6091 Alcoa […]
Elementary students honor first responders with donuts on National Peace Officers Memorial Day
Students at Hurricane Creek Elementary School have been learning about first responders, according to their teacher Hannah Stringer, and PTO president Amy Parnell. Parnell said the children wanted to honor all first responders on Monday. It happens that it is National Peace Officers Memorial Day. This is an official day in the United States, meant […]
Local Democratic Party announces list of 2023-24 Officers
The Saline County Democratic Committee recently elected officers for the 2023-24 term. They met on Monday January 9, 2023 with a full agenda. All officers were elected unanimously. The positions are as follows: Chairperson Bailey Morgan, 1st Vice Chair Laura Butler, 2nd Vice Chair Dustin Parsons, Secretary Melinda Lu Hensley, and Treasurer Tamme Adams.
Arkansas Bills Raise Salaries for State and Local Law Enforcement, Corrections
Law enforcement leaders and legislators gathered in the second-floor rotunda at the state capitol today as Governor Asa Hutchinson signed a bill that grants one-time stipends of up to $5,000 to police and probation and parole officers, and a second bill that increases the salary for Arkansas state troopers and other certified law enforcement officers […]
Benton PD Adds Two K-9 Officers, Sam and Rocko, to Make Three on the Force
The Benton Police Department is proud to announce a couple of additions to the department’s K-9 unit – Rocko and Sam. The department now has three K-9 dogs. Rocko is an 18-month-old Belgian Malinois, who was transferred from Guadalajara, Mexico and was trained by the Little Rock K-9 Academy with his handler Officer Andrew Stovall. […]
Three Local Law Enforcement Agencies Name New Field Training Officers
Officers from the Benton and Bryant Police Departments, along with deputies from the Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), have completed course work toward being certified Field Training Officers. The 32-hour course was held at the Benton Police Department with 15 students. This is also the first time the sheriff’s office has implemented the Arkansas Commission […]
Sheriff’s Office Finds Info on 19th Century Fallen Deputy and Family
UPDATE SEP 22, 2015, 9:14PM: Lt. Ron Parsons contacted MySaline to let us know what he found out about the fallen Deputy of 1847. The Saline County Sheriff Deputy killed in 1847 has been traced down and found to be Gilbert Byrd Burchfield. He was approximately age 34-35 years old at the time of his […]
SCSO Deputies Graduate Trig & Physics Course to Become Traffic Investigation Team
If this math makes sense to you – it looks like a foreign language to me – then you probably have some idea of what it takes to figure out what happened after a vehicle accident. The Saline County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) announced Friday morning that two deputies, Eric Stricklin and Sam Griffin, have completed a 12-week Accident […]