St. Louis County Police Department’s Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force representatives will receive the 2012 “Outstanding Community Prevention Effort Award” in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. Continue Reading

or the past year, St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch and community organizations have held nearly two dozen town hall meetings to raise awareness of the heroin epidemic. Deaths from heroin overdoses continue to decline, but officials say they are seeing an uptick in some age groups. Continue Reading

St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch said he once talked with a young woman arrested for buying heroin. She was from Ballwin. She told Finch she got hooked because she was battling depression. Continue Reading