##  [Citizen Report No. 1696949482 - 1309134407](/citizen-report-no-1696949482-1309134407) 

  [![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_500_x_500_/public/2022-05/Petersen.David_.PNG?itok=X0lER-o0)](/individual/david-%20petersen)David Petersen

 









 

 



 

 

**[Colbert Police Department](/oklahoma/colbert-police-department)**

705 Moore Avenue

Colbert, Oklahoma 74733











 

 



 

 

 [![Colbert Police Department](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2022-05/s-l300-2077759293%20%281%29.jpg?itok=TpmfDV-v "Colbert Police Department")](/oklahoma/colbert-police-department)





 

 



 

 

 





## Date of Offense

July 25, 2023





 

 



 

 

## Offense(s)

[Misconduct](/duty/misconduct)





 

 



 

 

 







 

 

## Supporting Document(s)

 [KXII Article](/sites/default/files/2023-10/kxii.com-Colbert%20fires%20police%20chief.pdf "kxii.com-Colbert fires police chief.pdf")

 

 

 

## Statement

No Public CLEET Record Found.

[KXII NEWS REPORT:](https://www.kxii.com/2023/07/25/colbert-police-chief-is-terminated-by-city-council/)

By [Talaiya Munson](https://www.kxii.com/authors/TalaiyaMunson/)

Published: Jul. 24, 2023 at 10:48 PM CDT|Updated: Aug. 16, 2023 at 5:04 PM CDT

> COLBERT, Okla. (KXII) - After meeting behind closed doors in an executive session for nearly an hour Monday night, the Colbert city council voted to terminate police chief David Petersen.
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> Colbert’s Mayor and City Council wouldn’t comment on Petersen’s termination during the meeting or afterwards.
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> Some residents were pleased while others were not, and had questions.
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> Petersen had been Colbert Chief of Police since 2017. When he was hired, the city knew that he had been fired from Pushmataha County Sheriff’s office in October of 2016. Petersen also had an arrest record and embezzlement case that was later dropped. At that time, Petersen told News 12 that all of the incidents were a misunderstanding.



 

 

 

 





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***We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.***

We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above.   
We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves.  
  
**WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...**  
\#ReformIsNotARequest





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