Department Staffs Community Policing Unit The Ottawa Police Department and Elizabeth Layton Center are pleased to announce the Crisis Co-Responder and Community Police Officer positions have been filled. In April 2022 Master Police Officer Adam Seyler, a 6-year veteran, was assigned as a Community Police Officer. MPO Seyler is a Central Heights High School and Ottawa University graduate. He has served as a field training officer, shift assistant supervisor and is a member o

City of Ottawa Named 2022 Kansas Municipal Utilities, Safe City Award Winner Ottawa, KS. - Kansas Municipal Utilities, the statewide association for municipal utilities, announced today that the city of Ottawa, Kansas was named the recipient of the 2022 KMU Safe City Award. This award is given to the one city in Kansas that best exemplifies the philosophy that one injury is too many and every injury is preventable. “It is my honor to present this award to the employees of the