Staff outlined plans to use remaining vehicle-account funds to buy an undercover car (about $20,000), to replace aging ATVs (roughly $7,500 each under law-enforcement pricing) and to outfit newly acquired vehicles; some outfitting will require additional town-council approval.

Police staff reported executing two search warrants that led to seizing over 200 grams of cocaine; they also discussed DOJ training reimbursements (about $320 per officer) and upcoming narcotics training funded by grants.

One person was killed and 17 injured after a car drove into a crowd during Berlin's Pride parade, prompting a major police investigation.

At its July 1 meeting the Berlin Police & Fire Commission read a written request from the mayor asking to observe police chief interviews, approved a timeline for the search (applications due July 10), agreed to form a limited interview panel including two commissioners and a Green Lake County Sheriff's Office representative, and will solicit anonymous input from officers about desired chief qualities.

To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.

The police chief asked council to approve submitting a grant application to offset start-up costs to adopt a CentralSquare CAD/RMS/MCT system that would integrate Berlin with Worcester County, Ocean City and Ocean Pines; the council approved the submission and directed staff to return with fallback funding if the grant is not awarded.

A right-wing extremist demonstration in Berlin's Friedrichshain district was ended prematurely on Saturday after about four hours in the face of numerous counter-protests. Participants in the neo-Naz...