Cheney KS Police Department

Update Main Street is open
Urgent Public information
Due to a building fire at Lubbers, traffic is blocked on MAIN STREET from Dollar general to the Farmers Coop Fuel pumps. Please take Lake road to get downtown or out of town if your heading north.

Public information.
If you were on Lake road last night, we had reports of vehicles getting egged. If you believe your vehicle was egged last night, please contact the Cheney Police department. 316-542-3173.

Update, street sign was recovered.
City of Cheney is asking for the public in assisting to locate a street sign taken on January 6th. It's the street sign at Fifth and Lincoln where street construction was going on at the time. A security camera has recorded what is believed to be two young males taking the sign in question. If you have information that can help solve this case or know the possible individuals involved, please contact the Cheney Police Department at 316-542-3173. Pictured below is the sign before it was taken.

Update: Owner has been located.

Cheney Police this morning recovered a mailbox on the street near the car wash. If your missing or think someone took your mailbox, please contact Officer Ohlde on the patrol phone at 316-213-5831. You will need to identify the mailbox. This is not the mailbox near the golf course parking lot.

Be safe tonight.

Cheney KS Police Department would like to remind everyone to check the weather conditions before you hit the road this holiday season. You can also call our PD patrol phone at 316-213-5831 if you want to know the current road conditions around town. Drive safe and drive responsibly.

Older Driver Safety Awareness Week is December 4-8, 2023

The older adult population is increasing as they live longer and healthier lives. They are also driving later into their lives.

In 2021, 21% of all drivers (55.8 million people) were aged 65 and older.

While older drivers are less likely to drive aggressively, they are considered vulnerable road users because crash data shows they accounts for a disproportionate number of the annual traffic fatalities in the United States (17% in 2021).
Driving is a complex activity. Older adults should be proactive about safe driving and identify changes to their physical abilities early. They should plan for a safe transition in their transportation options to ensure safe mobility.

Talking with an older person about their driving or evaluating your own driving is often difficult, but it’s important — especially before it becomes a safety issue.

Trusted friends and family members can help older drivers be proactive about safe driving by:
· Promoting awareness of the impact aging has on driving.
· Encouraging older drivers to be proactive about safe driving skills. Identifying changes early and intervening when necessary, will help older drivers, and other road users, stay safe.
· Motivating older drivers to plan for safe mobility even beyond the driver’s seat.

Here are some questions to consider asking an older driver:
· Are you getting lost on routes that should be familiar?
· Have you noticed new dents or scratches on your vehicle?
· Have you recently received a ticket or citation for a driving violation?
· Have you experienced a near-miss or crash recently?
· Have you been advised to stop driving due to a health reason?
· Do traffic signs and signals, or other motorists, make you feel overwhelmed while driving?
· Have you discussed whether an over-the-counter or prescription medication, or diagnosis change, may affect your driving abilities with a healthcare provider?

Sedgwick County Sheriff's office will be training their K-9 units at the fairgrounds today. Don't be alarmed if you hear sirens and a police presence in the area.

Vehicle-deer crashes can happen any day of the year on Kansas roadways. Across the state, 37% of all single-vehicle crashes in 2022 involved a collision with a deer. The Kansas Department of Transportation reports six people were killed and 575 people were injured in collisions with deer in 2022.

These crashes greatly increase from now until the end of the year because of deer breeding season, with November typically the peak time.

Drivers:
• Be especially watchful at dawn and dusk when deer are more active.
• If you see one deer, expect others, as deer seldom travel alone.
• Be alert and reduce speeds near wooded areas or green spaces and near water sources such as streams and ponds.
• Deer crossing signs show areas where high numbers of vehicle-deer collisions have occurred in the past; but they can happen on any roadway, including city streets.
• Do not swerve to avoid hitting a deer. Motorists could then veer into oncoming traffic, run off the road, hit objects or overturn.
• Use bright headlights when there is no oncoming traffic and scan for the reflective eyes of deer.
• If a collision occurs, move the vehicle to the roadway’s shoulder. Then, if possible, call law enforcement – KHP dispatch at *47, the Kansas Turnpike at *KTA or local law enforcement at 911.
• Put the vehicle’s hazard lights on, whether it is light or dark outside.
• Remain in the vehicle with your seat belt fastened to be better protected.
• Contact your insurance company to report any vehicle damage.

Anyone involved in a collision with a deer or other animal resulting in personal injury or property damage totaling $1,000 or more is required to immediately report the incident to the nearest law enforcement agency.

The Drug Enforcement Administration - DEA released updated information showing that 7 out of 10 pills they tested with fentanyl, contain a potentially lethal dose.

In our own KBI laboratories submissions testing positive for fentanyl increased over 900% from 2020 to 2022.

This means if you use pills or drugs you didn't get from your doctor or pharmacist, they may contain a deadly dose of fentanyl. Even !

Public Service Message on UTV and Golf Carts.
To drive these in Cheney you have to register it with City Hall and have it inspected by the Cheney KS Police Department.

Update:
Bike has been located.
A bike resembling the one pictured below was taken at the elementary school. If you know where it is please have it returned to the bike rack

Rules of the Road
Tip of the Week
A device in your vehicle some people aren't aware of.
KSA 8-1548 Turning movements and required signals. (a) No person shall turn a vehicle or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety, nor without giving an appropriate signal in the manner hereinafter provided.

(b) A signal of intention to turn or move right or left when required shall be given continuously during not less than the last one hundred (100) feet traveled by the vehicle before turning.

Parents
Spread the word. This is some great safety news for parents and their family for snap chat users.

Rules of the Road
Tip of the Week
KSA 8-1507. Official traffic-control devices; required obedience; placement; presumptions. (a) The driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device applicable thereto, placed in accordance with the provisions of this act, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, subject to the exceptions granted the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle in this act.
A friendly reminder that stop means stop.
Drive safe this week.

So your pet wants to be famous. Here are some ways your pet can be famous in a positive way; #1. Walk your pet around the neighborhood and show everyone how discipline your pet is. #2. Allow your pet to comfort someone having a tuff day. #3. Keeping your pets registration up to date with the City of Cheney, so your pet can be returned to it's family if it every gets lost.
Ways your pet will not to be famous, but infamous; #1. End up on Cheney Chat for the third time this month. #2. Letting your pet out and just roam the lonely streets of Cheney looking for love in all the wrong places. #3. Not having its shots up to date or registration and roaming around town which turns to a animal at large. This will result in a trip to Wichita, with a stay at a animal shelter.
Let's be a positive influence to our pets and community and make them famous!
"You stay classy, Cheney Kansas"

Update: Personal of interest has been identified.

Anyone know who this is? We would like to know.

Rules of the Road
Tip of the Week
We sometimes forget this one when there is no traffic control in place at intersections.
KSA 8-1526. Right-of-way; approaching or entering intersection. (a) When two (2) vehicles approach or enter an intersection from different highways at approximately the same time, the driver of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle on the right.
Let's do our best. Drive safe everyone.

Rules of the Road
Tip of the week
KSA 8-1537 Same; use of roadways. (a) Where a sidewalk is provided and its use is practicable, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway.

(b) Where a sidewalk is not available, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall walk only on a shoulder, as far as practicable from the edge of the roadway.

(c) Where neither a sidewalk nor a shoulder is available, any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall walk as near as practicable to an outside edge of the roadway, and, if on a two-way roadway, shall walk only on the left side of the roadway.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in this article, any pedestrian upon a roadway shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

Let's have a great week and be safe this Labor Day weekend.

The Cheney KS Police Department is asking for help in identifying the individual or individuals that struck a parked truck last night between 7 pm and 7:30 pm in the Cheney High School parking lot. If you are a young driver and it was just a accident, please contact the Cheney KS Police Department and we just need your information for our report and insurance information for the other party. Contact Officer Ohlde at 316-213-5831 with your information.

RULES OF THE ROAD
Tip for the week
With school in session and people on bikes we thought everyone should be aware of some bike safety.
KSA 8-1590. Riding on bicycles or mopeds; riding on roadways and bicycle paths.
(a) Every person operating a bicycle or a moped upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall ride as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable.
Bicycles are subject to the same rules as vehicles. Please stop at STOP signs and look both ways. Thanks and have a safe week.

School starts tomorrow. Please watch out for our kids and school staff.

At this time the Cheney Police Department shares its condolences with the Fairway Police Department and the City of Fairway KS. They suffered a tragic loss as one of their own passed away from gunshot wounds sustained in a gunfight Sunday.
Officer Oswald, 29, a four-year veteran, leaves behind a wife and two young children. The Oswald family has asked for privacy at this time and is appreciative of the support being shown to them.

Shared from another post.

School is getting ready to start, so please keep in mind Kansas Law concerning pedestrians in a crosswalk.
KSA 8-1533. When traffic-control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger.

Lets have a safe school year!

Update: Person of interest was located.

Cheney PD is asking for the public to help identify this individual. It seems a package went missing off of a porch at this residence around the same time this person was at the door. I'm sure she wasn't there to ask the home owner if he would like to extend his vehicle warranty. If you have any information of this person, please pm or call the Cheney PD at 316-542-3173. Reference case #23-028 (Porch Pirate)

Cheney Police Department News Report 05/30/2023 to 06/04/2023

📌UPDATE: Owner has been located!

‼️Please help us locate the owner of these dogs. ‼️
You can reach us at either non-emergency number, 316-542-3137 or 316-213-5831. 🐾