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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 31, 2024

The Memphis Police Department (MPD) recently launched a new fugitive task force and hired a new investigative counsel to tackle thousands of outstanding warrants in county. The Daily Memphian reports that the task force operates under MPD’s Organized Crime Unit with 29 officers assigned to it. Forrest Edwards also has been hired to serve as the task force’s new investigative counsel. Edwards, a former prosecutor in the Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office, will serve as a liaison between the department and the prosecutor’s office, helping prosecutors build cases. MPD says there are about 24,000 outstanding warrants in the county and that the task force has made 280 arrests since its formation last month.