Fort Valley Police Department Celebrates National Night Out

FORT VALLEY, Ga. – The Fort Valley Police Department is working to bridge the gap between their department and the community they serve. This last Saturday, July 27, the FVPD hosted their annual National Night Out event from 4 to 7 p.m. 

National Night Out is an opportunity for the Fort Valley community and the police department to bridge the gap and work towards community partnership. Attendees were able to get free food, a free lemonade from Freshly Squeezed Lemonade, and a free shaved ice from Kona Ice.

Fort Valley Chief of Police DJ Flores emphasized the importance of National Night Out, not just for the nation but for local communities like Fort Valley.

“National Night Out is important across the nation, but most importantly, here in Fort Valley because we try to bring every community together to work together to try and reduce crime for the entire city. Because crime does impact the entire city,” Flores said. “So, we try as a police department and as a public safety family to try to coordinate with every single neighborhood to show them how much equal that we treat everybody here at the City of Fort Valley and apply the services through police equally in every single neighborhood.”

Flores wants to encourage the citizens of Fort Valley to come out and take part in the community events. He hopes these events will bridge the gap and help with communication between the police department and the community.

“I would like to continue to encourage the community to come out. Support your local police department the same way we support you,” Flores stated. “We want you to come and connect with us, so that we can continue to strategize together and come up with important solutions to help reduce crime in your respective jurisdiction and neighborhoods.”

Flores wanted to assure the community that the Fort Valley Police Department is working with the the other departments and surrounding jurisdictions to do what they can to stop crime in the City of Fort Valley.

“We continue to work together with all our public safety partners in Fort Valley; the Sheriff’s Department, Byron Police, Fort Valley State University, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety and many of the surrounding jurisdictions to continue to try and help reduce crime and bring innovation to the City of Fort Valley to help curb crime,” Flores said.