A small city in southeastern Minnesota has been left without a police department after the whole force recently resigned, according to officials.
The Goodhue Police Department resigned due to issues with the city’s pay, Mayor Ellen Anderson Buck said at a city council meeting Monday. The city is located in a county by the same name, and has a population of just over 1,000, according to its website.
The city council met to discuss options for police coverage following the department’s resignation. The meeting was initially called so the city could discuss salary increases for the department, but the entire team resigned before it could happen.
“Since the resignations have been handed in by our police department, it has been recommended by our city attorney that at this point we need to pursue our other options,” Anderson Buck said at the top of the meeting. “So, at this point, there’s no reason to really talk about pay increases since we no longer have a police force.”
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