The authors of a study about forming a dedicated Tucker police department held a public forum about the study on Sept. 9, attended by a crowd that seemed receptive to the concept.

The forum, sponsored by the Tucker Civic Association, featured presentations by Northlake-Tucker CID Executive Director Matthew Lee, and Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police executives Dwayne Orrick and Ed Densmore.

The $45,000 study, commissioned by the Tucker-Northlake CID in January with funding from groups that included the Tucker Summit CID, Tucker Civic Association, Tucker Business Association, and Tucker Main Street Alliance, “analyzed two years of 911 dispatch data, interviewed business and civic leaders and compared Tucker’s current policing structure with those of neighboring cities,” according to

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