RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - Rapid City police say complaints against officers in 2019 were the lowest in nine years.
Citizens filed 12 complaints last year compared to a high of 56 in 2015 and an average of 35 between 2011-2019, the Rapid City Journal reported.
Last year also marked the debut of equipping officers with body cameras, allowing the department to use the footage to help investigate the complaints.
The 12 complaints were the result of 142,186 calls for service and 8,243 arrests.
“The high volume of work and the low number of complaints is a positive reflection of the quality of employees who serve you as well as the training they receive,” Police Chief Karl Jegeris wrote in the report.
Jegeris said the department takes the complaints seriously and when “we are wrong we admit it, and we take measures to improve our ability to provide service to citizens.”
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