Woonsocket, RI: The City of Woonsocket announces the opening of the application period for an Open Competitive Examination for Firefighter that will end on December 2, 2016. Applicants are encouraged to submit the required form to the Personnel Division before that date. The testing date is scheduled for December 10, 2016. Applications and position description […]readmore
Woonsocket, RI: The City of Woonsocket reminds residents that during the winter season, December 1, 2016 through April 1, 2017, parking ban restrictions will periodically be placed on city streets in the event of significant snowfall. In accordance with city ordinance, restrictions on parking along primary streets in the city will be restricted while a […]readmore
Cranston – Nicholas Loverdi was arraigned before a Justice of the Peace at Cranston Police Headquarters. The judge set bail at $30,000 with surety on the Cranston Police charge of second degree robbery, for the robbery of Webster Bank. He will appear in Kent County Court on Monday November 21, 2016 on the Cranston charge. […]readmore
Colonel Michael J. Winquist, Chief of the Cranston Police Department, announces that a multi-agency search had led to the arrest of a suspect wanted for two bank robberies that occurred in the City of Cranston. On January 20, 2016, the Cranston Police Department investigated a bank robbery which occurred at the Bank Rhode Island branch […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI (November 18, 2016) – The American Red Cross is helping seven families — fourteen adults and six children — after a fire today on Carter Street, Providence. The Red Cross provided assistance to meet the families’ immediate needs. The Red Cross is also providing comfort kits containing personal care items such as toothbrushes, […]readmore
Colonel Michael J. Winquist, Chief of the Cranston Police Department, announces that the Department’s Detective Division, with the assistance of the Rhode Island State Violent Fugitive Task Force, arrested two suspects for the theft of two City owned trucks and snow plows, which had been stolen from the Cranston Stadium in late 2015. On December […]readmore
CENTRAL FALLS – The Central Falls police department (CFPD) has been awarded a $94,355.00 grant by RIDOT’s Office on Highway Safety for impaired driving, speed, pedestrian safety, distracted driving and occupant protection enforcement. The grant will allow the CFPD to continue aggressive enforcement and public education efforts to reduce speed and impaired driving fatalities and […]readmore
CENTRAL FALLS – The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing has recommended training program standards and strategies that address changing police culture and organizational procedural justice issues (cops.usdoj.gov, 2015). To that end, the Central Falls Police Department is hosting Racial Intelligence Training and Engagement™ (RITE) «train-the-trainer» course November 17-18 at the Wyatt Detention Facility […]readmore
CENTRAL FALLS – On November 15, 2016 at approximately 9:00pm the Central Falls Police responded to the Dunkin Donuts located at 541 Broad Street for reports of a robbery that had just occurred. Upon arrival the two clerks gave the responding officers a description for a male and female that had robbed the store and […]readmore
CENTRAL FALLS – On November 15, 2016 at approximately 9:45am the Central Falls Police Department received a call from a witness stating that three subjects had just exited the driveway of 293/295 Illinois Street. The three subjects were carrying a safe and some type of computer tablets along with other household items. Fortuitously, a detective […]readmore