Homer, LA: City disbands police force

HOMER, LA (KSLA) –

“It hit me dead in the face,” Homer Police Chief turned ex-chief Russell Mills says about Monday’s vote by town leaders to disband its police force.

Homer’s five-member council moved to get rid of its police force effective March 1. Homer’s police department had 8 officers, one chief and one secretary.

Of the department’s 10 members, only two will remain — a captain and a lieutenant — until August as a transition goes on with the Claiborne Parish Sheriff’s Department, Mills says.

Mills, though no longer chief, says he is slated to be Homer’s new town marshal.

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