Montague Police Department

Quality service and safety for everyone in the community are the aims of the Montague Police Department in Franklin County, Massachusetts, which covers the town's five villages at all hours and practices community policing as a team effort with residents, many of whom count officers as neighbors. The department maintains a 911 police dispatch center with a constant NCIC and CHSB connection to police and courts statewide and nationally, and an animal control officer and reserve officers round out the staff. Its K-9 program dates to the 1970s, when the town's original dog team tracked buried stolen jewelry and found a lost child on the Montague Plains in winter cold; the program was revived in 2000 with a handler and dog certified in tracking, evidence recovery and drug detection. Drug investigations grew from patrol work in the 1980s into a federally funded regional gang and narcotics task force for Hampshire and Franklin counties. Sex offender registry information is released by level under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, § 178K, with Level 2 details available on written request from adults with identification.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Turners Falls CDP, MA has an estimated population of 3,949.