The Minot City Council will hold a special meeting on Thursday, December 16, 2024, at 5:45 PM in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 10 3rd Ave SW. Residents in need of special accommodations are encouraged to contact the City Clerk’s office at 857-4752. Special meetings are limited to topics on their
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Minot’s City Council is taking a big step to support first responders dealing with trauma. They’re partnering with a Florida-based provider, FHE Health, to create an outreach and aftercare program that helps officers and other emergency workers grappling with post-traumatic stress. This comes after the heartbreaking loss of two officers to suicide in the last
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On Dec. 17, 2024, at 12:22 a.m., Minot Central Dispatch received a report of an unresponsive female in a northwest Minot apartment. Officers from the Minot Police Department arrived on scene and discovered a male performing CPR on the victim, Jane Doe. The male performing CPR informed officers that he was Jane Doe’s brother-in-law, and
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On December 16, 2024, at approximately 3:21 p.m., the Minot Police Department responded to a report of a stolen purse at a business in southwest Minot. The incident later escalated to the theft of a vehicle. The victim initially reported her purse stolen from her place of employment. Shortly after, she discovered that her vehicle
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On December 6, officers from the Minot Police Department arrested Hiroki Ito, a 27-year-old resident of Minot, following the issuance of an arrest warrant. The investigation began after the Minot Police Department received information from the Minot Public School District regarding potential inappropriate contact or relationships between Ito and students. Ito is a former paraprofessional
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The independent investigator’s report into the work environment at Minot’s Police Department has been out for a couple weeks now. Explicitly, there is no finding of a hostile work environment. Specifically, the report states: “A hostile work environment means conduct that is unwelcome or offensive in the workplace which causes one or more employees to
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At approximately 2:00 a.m. on November 30, 2024, officers from the Minot Police Department responded to a residence in northeast Minot following a report of theft from a motor vehicle. The victim reported that an air compressor had been stolen from their vehicle. Shortly thereafter, at approximately 2:30 a.m., officers investigated a suspicious vehicle complaint
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On September 27, 2024, the Minot City Council allotted $50,000 to Clark Hill (a multinational law firm), to conduct an external investigation into the Minot Police Department, specifically the leadership (not just Chief Klug). The report finds there was no information to support the existence of: a hostile work environment, inconsistent discipline, police staff lacking
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As you run your gratitude list today, here’s one item to add. Today, add a little extra thanks for our police officers and the Minot Police Department. If you’re out of the loop, the Minot Police Department is in the middle of a difficult moment. The department’s dirty laundry has been aired publicly as result
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On Friday afternoon, the City of Minot released the report of Yvette Heintzelman of the firm Clark Hill into what’s been happening inside the Minot Police Department. The primary finding of the report is that a hostile work environment was not present, but that leadership has considerable room to improve. A more detailed look at
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Minot Police responded to reports of property vandalism involving paintball impacts in a southeast Minot neighborhood on October 27, 2024, at approximately 9:26 p.m. Officers arriving at the scene identified multiple vehicles, fences, and garages marked with paint splatter, consistent with damage from a paintball gun. Through video evidence and witness statements, officers were able
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Officers from the Minot Police Department responded to a crash involving a cyclist and a pickup truck at the intersection of 8th St. NE and 7th Ave. NE at 5:14 p.m. on October 24. Emergency personnel arrived on the scene and provided medical assistance. According to the investigation, a 14-year-old male cyclist was traveling westbound
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On the morning of October 25, 2024, at approximately 7:30 a.m., officers from the Minot Police Department were dispatched to a residence in southwest Minot in response to a reported domestic disturbance. According to the Minot Police Department, the Central Dispatch had received a call indicating an argument between a male and a female. During
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When it came to their Police Department, Fargo officials knew they had problems. Some of their daytime shifts were at half-strength. Their force was down about 10% of their budgeted positions. The interesting part is they didn’t just shove the problem under the rug. They sat down and listened to their officers, conducting over 90
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Filling budgeted positions has become a problem at the Minot Police Department. And the cycle is dangerous; it’s costing the City overtime pay and adding burden to those we do have on the job. Charles Crane with the Minot Daily News has the full story.
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