Longview City Council Approves Task Force Officer

LONGVIEW – The Longview Police Department has received the approval of the City Council to provide an officer to the East Texas Area Safe Streets Task Force. The Task Force is under the direction of the FBI. The mission of the task force is to identify and target for prosecution criminal enterprise groups. They are responsible for a wide variety of crimes, including drug trafficking, money laundering, alien smuggling, crimes of violence such as murder, aggravated assault, robbery, and violent street gangs. Longview Police Chief Mike Bishop says he sees this as an chance to formalize the relationship between his department and the FBI and to maximize inter-agency cooperation.”