CONWAY, SC (WBTW) – On Tuesday night, Mayor of Conway, Barbara Blain-Bellamy, expressed concerns about calling police during non-emergencies.
Blain-Bellamy said she’s called the police department three times in the past three months to report suspicious activity in neighborhoods. However, she’s been met with a busy signal, a phone that is never answered or a phone that is answered but the call was transferred to an answering machine.
“Citizens in Conway deserve a method for calling the police for non-emergency situations,” said Mayor Blain-Bellamy.
This is a concern she’s brought up in the past but has not seen results.
“We need to have a methodology to be able to say to police officers on patrol or their supervisors that there is suspicious activity, troubling activity, whatever the case may be that should not require us to call 9-1-1 and interfere with attending to the needs of people who are in dire straights,” she added. “I really hope we can work that out.”
The Conway Police Department is looking to fill the Chief of Police position after Chief Reggie Gosnell retired at the end of 2017.
