Sunday, January 18, 2009, 11:13am
St. Louis County police will begin patrolling the streets of St. George starting next month, county officials said Friday.
The city will become the 17th to contract with the county. St. George officials voted unanimously in favor of the five-year contract for 24-hour police service, according to St. Louis County police.
St. George is the town of about 1,500 where a man in 2007 recorded a police officer's tirade on a commuter lot near Interstate 55. The video, posted online, briefly put the south St. Louis County community in the spotlight.
The tape caught a St. George sergeant yelling, berating the motorist and threatening to arrest the man on fictional charges. The man said he put a video recorder in this car after previous run-ins with police. The sergeant was later fired.