The Fairmont Department of Public conducted interviews for one full-time and two part-time police positions. Chief Robert Hassell, will like to thank Mrs. Peggy Spencer and Matelene Hunt for serving on the interview board as our civilian participants. Please know that your participation and input was helpful in selecting three applicants to continue to the next phase in the department's selection process. 

I am pleased to announce and welcome you to the Fairmont Department of Public Safety’s blog. We are currently running tests to ensure that the blog is working properly so please bare with us if there is down time. I hope the blog will be another useful tool to share and receive information and ideas that go beyond the stories in the news.

Blogging for our department is new and blogging can be exciting and at times controversial. I understand that police work and our fire duties affects everyone in the community, yet we often do not have the opportunity to talk about what we are doing and why, or hear from those we serve, so I hope this will be a way for us to exchange ideas on topics of concern. I will post article and thoughts from time to time and hope to engage many of you in a positive way.

It is my intention that the FDPS Blog will not avoid challenging and controversial subjects because without them, a blog is not a useful communication tool and its purpose is defeated. Therefore, I welcome your comments on the stories you see posted here and on topics you do not see.
Through this space, you can let us, and the rest of the community, know what is important to you.

Robert A. Hassell
Director of Public Safety