KCPD Police Academy recruit Mckenzie Kilbury will graduate this May after joining the academy in late October 2023. “I’ve always been kind of a little bit bossy toward all the boys and ...

The academy is seven months long, followed by a break-in period before they become a full-time police officer about a year after their first day. This comes at the same time KCPD ramped up its ...

On Monday, nearly all of the 41 new officers were filling out paperwork at KCPD Headquarters downtown. The new officers face six months at the police academy, followed by a “break-in period ...

Police Chief Stacey Graves says KCPD’s reinstituted their summer entertainment plan to try to make sure they have more officers in the downtown corridor even in these winter months, but the ...

And another former officer said being Black in the KCPD was like “being a mouse in a snake cage.” The unexplained conclusion of the federal probe into the police department three days before ...

KCPD said Newton is still employed by the department and works in the patrol bureau. "I really don’t understand why he is still a police officer," Picerno said. Picerno said he has additional ...

Two Kansas City police officers opened fire and injured a ... “We coordinate the release of the information regarding KCPD officer involved shootings with the MSHP. The release of information ...

At Tuesday's Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners meeting ... KSHB 41 requested an interview with KCPD to discuss the program's objectives. KCPD did not make someone available for an ...