Chief Executive Officer
Joseph W. Costa
Welcome to the DeSoto Police Department ’ s Annual Report for 2023! Thank you for taking an interest in our department and for the support we receive from the community, the city administration and our elected officials. We hope that you will enjoy this edition and become informed of some of the highlights relative to the overall efforts and activities of the dedicated men and women that make up the entire department. This includes all of our officers, employees and volunteers in Patrol, CID, Administration, Code Enforcement, Animal Control and the DeSoto Regional Jail. In 2023, our overall crime increased by 9%. However, there are some bright spots even with this increase. We are all very pleased that there were ZERO Homicides in DeSoto last year, as compared to four in 2022. Aggravated Assaults were down by 3.9% and Robberies decreased by 31.4%! We can be proud of the fact that over the last five years, violent crime has decreased by 5.5% and Family Violenceis down by 3.1%. Traffic safety in DeSoto is a high priority and in 2023 our patrol and traffic officers took a more aggressive approach to speeding and DWI. More citations were issued for traffic violations and eighty intoxicated drivers were taken into custody. Our budgeted officer positions increased by five bringing our total number of officer positions to eighty - eight. We increased the number of fixed speed radar signs and we will continue to install them throughout the city.
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