Chief's Corner - October 2025

October 2025 Introduction Edition

Welcome Buchanan to the Chief’s Corner. This is a monthly web-based publication dedicated to providing you, our citizens and community partners, with brief informational messages from the Chief of Police regarding various law enforcement and community-policing related topics and activities. You will also have an opportunity to meet the officers and staff of the City of Buchanan Police Department.

As a full-service police agency, we embrace the motto, “Professionalism, Courtesy, and Integrity,” which reflects our proactive mission and vision to provide our community with high quality, compassionate, and professional community-based law enforcement support.

In this edition, I want to introduce an important community-policing effort that your police department has been in partnership with the Buchanan Area Ministerial Association (BAMA) since 2021. Faith & Blue is a national police-community outreach effort that “facilitates safe and stronger communities by engaging officers and residents through the connections of faith-based community organizations.” For 2025, Faith & Blue will take place on the weekend of October 10-13.

Throughout America, many police agencies plan various outreach activities alongside their faith-based partners. Here in Buchanan, the officers and personnel of your police department fellowship with most area church congregations during their worship services. Visting officers often express their gratitude, answer questions, and on occasion may provide special music. Afterward, they participate in a fellowship luncheon provided by one of the churches. This year, a squad car will be stationed outside of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church to collection food donations for Redbud Area Ministries.

If you have never participated in Faith & Blue here in Buchanan, I encourage you to do so. It is an event that you don’t want to miss.

For more information on Faith & Blue, talk with your pastor, reach out to BAMA, visit our police department website, or contact Officer Katelyn Cooke at (269) 659-5120.

In closing, have the courage to let nothing stand in the way of you doing the right thing.

- Buchanan Police Chief Harvey Burnett