Higginsville Police Department

08/26/2026

Happy National K9 day to Officer Burns and K9 Leo!

08/12/2026

After many months of hard work a bittersweet event happened today. Higginsville Central Dispatch has moved to their new building and will be operating independent from the police department. Central dispatch has upgraded 911 systems to an ESInet system. This system is more modern and provides better redundancy and next generation 911 capabilities including text to 911 service. It also provides better real time location data so that we can get you the help you need as quickly as possible. These are huge advancements to Lafayette county’s 911 center! We’d like to give a huge thank you the the Lafayette County Missouri Emergency Services board for their help with this project as well as the city of Higginsville Electric department for their help!

What this means for the police department is we will no longer have staff to operate our lobby 24 hours a day. Our lobby will be open during business hours thru the week. During the times we don’t have staff in the lobby, we will have an intercom which will call directly to dispatch and they will be able to dispatch an officer for you. As always the easiest way to get in touch with an officer is to call the 660-584-2104 number which still rings into dispatch 24 hours a day. In the event of an emergency please call 911.

07/21/2026

Congratulations to Animal Control officer Jeff Graham on 20 years of service with the city of Higginsville!

07/04/2026

06/30/2026

As we near the 4th of July, we would like to remind citizens of ordinances related to the use of fireworks within the city. It is only legal to shoot fireworks from July 2nd to Midnight on the 4th of July inside the city limits. It is unlawful to shoot fireworks in the streets, alleyways, or parks or public property. It is also unlawful to shoot anything into the air that does not completely consume itself (example: bottle rockets.) We hope everyone has a safe and fun Holiday. If you have further questions please refer to the Higginsville City Ordinances 215.680-215.700 online at

https://www.ecode360.com/HI332

06/28/2026

Updated!! Child located safe.

Missing child, missing from 1300 block of main since about 1pm age 7 name is Deante Belleci. If seen contact the police department.

06/16/2026

Congratulations to Dispatch Director Candy Wing on 25 years of service with the City of Higginsville.

05/21/2026

Please join us in congratulating Officer Ratigan, who, among individuals from Higginsville Fire and EMS, the Odessa Police Department, the Lafayette County Sheriff, and other agencies around the state, have just completed the 3-Day GRIN (Group and Individual) Crisis Intervention Course at the Kansas City Police Academy.

These individuals spent the past three days with instructors from the Warriors Rest Foundation; training to better equip themselves with tools to assist their fellow officers or other agencies who need an extra hand through Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM); which includes group crisis interventions such as Critical Incident Stress Debriefings (CISD), defusings, and various other tools.