Babbitt to possibly dissolve Police Department; integrate with St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office

The Babbitt City Council heard a proposal on Tuesday evening from the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office for potentially absorbing the Babbitt Police Department, due to the town’s difficulty in hiring a new police chief.

The job opening has been up for several months, with no applications received.

Sheriff Gordan Ramsey began the presentation with, “We’ve lost 11 police departments in the county over the last few decades; which comes at a significant cost to the county because we have to cover those places.”