09/02/10 Officer Kari Seibel Receives American Legion Officer of the Year Award
On Wednesday July 21st, at Nampa City Hall in the Council Chambers, Officer Kari Seibel of Nampa City Police Department, was locally recognized for being selected as Police Officer of the year by The American Legion, Department of Idaho. Mayor Tom Dale and Commander Ron Herr of The American Legion, Post 18 in Nampa presented Officer Seibel with a Certificate of Commendation from Post 18.
For full details on the award and Officer Seibel's actions leading to it, please see the full release here.
The Nampa Police Department would like to remind motorists that school begins tomorrow in Nampa. The Nampa Police Department traffic team is involved in an on-going effort to keep children safe by enforcing speed and crosswalk violation within school zones.
The Nampa Police Department would like to remind motorists that there are two types of school zones in the city of Nampa. The first type of school zone has flashing yellow lights, and the reduced school zone speed is in effect during the time period that the yellow lights are flashing. The second type of school zone does not have yellow flashing lights and the reduced speed is in effect from 7:00 AM- 5:00 PM.
Many of the school zones in Nampa also contain crosswalks that are used by school age children. As a reminder, motorists are required to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians crossing within a crosswalk. Any questions can be directed towards Sgt. Matt Pavelek at (208) 468-5608.
07/15/10 Stolen Property Recovery Information
On 06/26/2010, Nampa Police Department arrested 25 year old Joshua P. Elliott of Nampa. It is believed Elliott is responsible for multiple vehicle burglaries in Ada county as well as in the city of Nampa.
The arrest of Elliott has resulted in the recovery of over $41,000 dollars worth of property, taken between June and July 2010. Nampa Police Department currently has numerous property items, which we are trying to identify the owners of.
If you were a victim of a vehicle burglary in either June or July of 2010, please view the stolen property release for photos of the items and instructions on how to recover your property.
01/07/10 Nampa Police Participating in the Alive at 25 program
Please see the press release for details.
01/05/10 Follow Traffic and DUI Teams on Twitter
Be one of the first to know if there’s an accident tying up a Nampa street, or if officers are patrolling a specific area for speeders or drunk drivers. You can now get a Tweet from Nampa Police when you follow them on Twitter at http://twitter.com/nampapdtraffic.
The STEP and DUI teams decided to use Twitter to try to get information out more quickly to the public regarding traffic problems that result from crashes, current mobilization and saturation information, and real time enforcement projects. You are invited to follow the Nampa Police Department traffic team on Twitter and feedback is welcome.
