Field Operations – This division provides the routine patrol of the City. They also provide the booking, custody, and release of prisoners, enforce traffic ordinances and laws; investigate traffic, criminal and non-criminal incidents; perform crime prevention activities; keep the peace; and enforce all laws and ordinances of this city, and state. Our Field Operations acts as the front line of the department in providing services to the community and carrying out the mission of protecting lives and property. The division is staffed with two patrol lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, and thirteen patrol officers.
Officers handle a wide variety of calls that involve criminal activity. They arrest numerous offenders each year. They also respond to non-criminal calls for service. Traffic related calls ranging from assisting motorists to handling a fatal auto accident; property related calls, lost, damaged and found; natural disasters, wires down, business and residential alarms, sick cases and accidental injuries, family disturbances, animal bites, crime prevention talks, and station tours. When the officers are not responding to dispatched calls they perform routine patrol duties that include carrying out traffic enforcement procedures, patrol in business areas, make business checks, and vacation checks. Officers are frequently required to respond to state and municipal court to testify and required to complete numerous hours of training each year.
http://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/MSHPWeb/Root/index.html Road conditions, state sex offenders, record checks, etc
http://dor.mo.gov/ Department of Revenue - drivers license vehicle license
http://www.stlouiscodvcouncil.com/ Order of Protections
