'West Village' Police Precinct To Add 24 Officers To Buckhead

Buckhead GA

07 September, 2021

8:58 AM

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ATLANTA — A new mini police precinct will open in Buckhead's west side, Atlanta Police announced. The spike in crime in Atlanta Police Zone 2 - Buckhead - over the past year has led to the decision to increase the number of officers there, Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant said. "What we recognized in the Buckhead space was that crime was elevating much more rapidly than traditionally," Bryant said last week in a meeting with media. "In a certain part of Buckhead, the population doubled in size every day. And most of our units are tied up in addressing accidents and traffic." Called the West Village mini precinct, the new precinct will open and be fully operational by 2022 with a minimum of 24 officers. Criticism of the city's handling of increased Buckhead crime has been the primary impetus for the movement to secede the tony residential and business community from Atlanta and form a new city. But Bryant said the move to open the new precinct is driven as much by population growth as by crime, Bryant said. "No other area in our city garners that much population growth every single day," he said. "It will relieve the officers in that Zone 2 space to go back to patrol as opposed to just handling traffic accidents." To staff the West Village mini precinct police will add 10 percent of each subsequent police academy graduating class to Zone 2, in addition to the regular allotment. No location for the precinct has been identified yet, so new officers will operate from the Lennox Square Zone 2 precinct for the time being. See also: Arrest Made In Deadly Buckhead Apartment ShootingAtlanta Police Leaders Call Buckhead Cityhood Critique 'Baseless'Buckhead City Committee Wants 'Divorce' From Atlanta: CEOLenox Mall Security Guard Shot During Robbery Attempt: Police'Buckhead City Now!' Demand Emailed From Community GroupMan Accused Of Killing Kennedy Maxie Back In Atlanta JailDrones To Patrol Lenox Square Mall: ReportsWill Buckhead Security Plan Curb Crime?