Ball with us: MPD participates in Late Night Basketball Program
Community Engagement Specialist Alex Rickets discusses the importance of engaging youth in our community and highlights the MPD's involvemen...
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Chief Koval's Podcast
The Madison Police Department is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the leaders in community-based policing where officers are all recognized as leaders and encouraged to be...
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20 of 105 episodesMPD Throws back to hear from former Chiefs
Chief Barnes sits down with former MPD Leaders, Chief David Cooper (1972-1993) and Chief Noble Wray (2004-2014), to discuss their experience...
Compassion and Coordination: MPD’s approach to helping those with mental illness
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In this episode, learn how our officers help those living with mental health concerns. We talk about e...
MPD Bridging the Gap: Where I'm from, Chief Shon Barnes (Part 2)
In our inaugural Episode, entitled "Where I'm From" Henry Sanders, from Madison 365 will assume hosting duties. This episode explores a few...
MPD Bridging the Gap: Where I'm from, Chief Shon Barnes (Part 1)
In our inaugural Episode, entitled "Where I'm From" Henry Sanders, from Madison 365 will assume hosting duties. This episode explores a few...
Chief's Corner - Episode 1 - Chief Barnes Update
In this previously recorded first episode of Chief's Corner, Chief Barnes sits down with Public Information Officer Tyler Grigg to share rec...
A New Vision for MPD’s Future
Listen in as we mark a moment of transition for the Madison community and the MPD. After a year-long hiring process, Chief Shon Barnes becom...
MPD names new PIO As Chief Wahl reflects on an unparalleled year
Following a nationwide search, the Madison Police Department found the best candidate to take over the public information office close to ho...
Time to say goodbye/MPD’s Public Information Officer readies for retirement
After more than 13 years, and four police chiefs, MPD PIO Joel DeSpain has decided to call it a career at the end of the year. In the podcas...
Madison’s next police chief/an insider’s perspective
The MPD will be getting a new police chief, possibly by the end of the year, and the selection process turns out to be very unique in Wiscon...
Pending budget cuts and public safety
The Madison Police Department, for decades, has been looked at as one of the best in the country with highly-trained officers committed to c...
Civil Unrest Investigation
The MPD is one of the first departments in the country to ask for an outside group to examine and review its response to recent protests. Th...
All about the Money
Presidential candidates, homicides, protests, will all impact the MPD’s bottom-line this year. As they do so at a time when money is needed...
MPD Cadets
At a time when those applying to be police officers is on the decline nationally, the MPD is bucking the trend. Numbers of applicants are up...
A MARI Success Story
When two Madison Police officers showed up in her hospital room, a woman who had just overdosed on heroin, thought she was likely going to j...
Teen Car Theives: A Disturbing Trend
It is one of the most prolific crime problems plaguing the greater Madison area, and finding ways to deter young burglars and car thieves ha...
The ever changing and challenging world of digital forensics
In terms of cracking cases - from misdemeanors to homicides - it is an incredibly valuable tool, one that has taken on even greater importan...
Saying thanks to some important guardians
Wisconsin’s Adult Crossing Guard Recognition Week In the dead of winter, they are bundled up, standing on busy streets shepherding some of o...
Quality of Madison policing at a crossroads?
In the final Madison Police Department podcast of 2019, Acting Chief Vic Wahl joins Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain for a frank and...
Winter Parking
There are new parking orders in place for this winter, and rules could be changing even more dramatically in the future. Madison is a beauti...