Press release from Milwaukie Police Department:

The Milwaukie Police Department will offer a FREE document shred event on Saturday, June 12, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Citizens are invited to drop off personal documents, statements, and mail at the Public Safety Building at 3200 SE Harrison Street, Milwaukie, Oregon.

Milwaukie Police Cadets will assist citizens with the safe disposal of documents in the parking lot of the Public Safety Building.  The shredder truck is being provided by Iron Mountain Inc.

The free shred day event is being offered by the Milwaukie Police Department as part of a crime-prevention effort to reduce identity theft, fraud and related crimes.

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The Milwaukie Police Department, in partnership with Providence Milwaukie Hospital and their Community Health in Motion Program,  will host a prescription drug turn-in day.

Designed to raise awareness of the abuse of prescription drugs, and to keep potentially dangerous drugs out of landfills and waterways, this event allow citizens to anonymously drop off unneeded or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.

The event will be held Saturday, April 10, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Milwaukie Public Safety Building, 3200 SE Harrison Street, in Milwaukie.

If you have not subscribed to CodeRED, Milwaukie’s telephone-based emergency notification system, you may want to add your landline and cellular phone number to the list.

If you already subscribe to CodeRED and your phone number changed before June 2009, you will need to update your phone number in the system.

The automated messaging system will call subscribers to alert any emergency situation present in the area.

Milwaukie Police Department activated CodeRED on Jan. 15th when a shooting suspect was at large in the Island Station Neighborhood. (more…)