The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians is offering to share its police services with the village of Athens, Michigan.
The tribe started its police department in January with one officer. The tribe plans to expand and has offered to help Athens, which has lacked a police force since the mid-1980s.
Village leaders say the idea is attractive because it would only cost them around $20,000 to $25,000 to work with the tribe. It could cost as much as $90,000 to contract a police officer from the county government.
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(The Battle Creek Enquirer 6/11)
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