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MTPD lieutenant uses hobby to help families helped by HAT

Posted by Laura Baenen | Dec. 17, 2020

Lt. Erin Dietz recently discovered that she can use her stress-relieving hobby to help formerly homeless families. She finds and refinishes used furniture and donates them to families who have found permanent housing with the help of the Metro [...]

In This Together Transit Police

In This Together: Police Officer Brett Schuck

Posted by Drew Kerr | Nov. 10, 2020

Across the organization, Metro Transit employees’ work has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These "In This Together" Q&As illustrate how employees are adapting both on and off the clock. Read more interviews here. How has the pandemic [...]

Transit Police

Police recruits’ backgrounds include coping with chaotic childhood, war, career change

| Oct. 16, 2020

On Oct. 14 Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) welcomed a diverse group of new officers with varied backgrounds and abilities. In addition to English, the recruits speak Somali, Arabic, Greek, Hmong and Spanish. Two are women, eight have been [...]

Transit Police

MTPD awards recognize officers for saving lives, bus operator for helping catch suspect

| Oct. 9, 2020

At its annual awards ceremony Sept. 30, the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) honored officers for those efforts and civilians, including a bus operator, a bus passenger and a passing motorist, for helping them. Life Saving Award: Sgt. [...]

Bus Transit Police

Special MTPD team focuses on trouble areas to address customers’ concern

| Sep. 16, 2020

Since this summer, the Transit Response Unit (TRU) team has been using data to proactively address customers’ concerns like disorderly conduct, smoking, drinking, and other inappropriate behaviors. “We are combining technological resources a [...]

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