Meeker County Sheriff update
The Meeker County Sheriff’s Office will be utilizing a new emergency alert system in the near future. Residents can sign up free-of-charge to get notifications about emergency situations, and instructions about how to sign up for the new RAVE system will be coming out in the next few weeks through social media and on the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office website.
Meeker County Sheriff Brian Cruze says they had been using Code Red, but that system had a data breach in November which is why they are making the switch at this time. He says if you had a password with Code Red that you use for other applications, you should switch it.
Sheriff Cruze says he attended the annual Minnesota Sheriff’s Conference this week in the Brainerd area and he was honored to be able to hand out a couple of life-saving awards to two Meeker County Deputies. He says they were involved in saving someone last July 29th who had fallen off of a tube in the Crow River and got tangled in fallen tree debris.
Sheriff Cruze says the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association will be announcing scholarship winners early in the new year and as the application deadline ended November 28th, they had over 70 applications. He says that is way up from last year when there were only 18 applicants for 20 scholarships, so it shows that an interest is returning for young people to choose law enforcement as a career.
