It is a little unexpected, a small, traditional New Mexico pueblo with a police department as technologically advanced, maybe more so, than those of some major metropolitan areas. But that describes the Tesuque Pueblo Police Department.The pueblo, consisting of 17,000 acres, is located in a very rural area of Santa Fe Country and has less than 1,000 residents, with 570 individuals living there tribal members. It is this rural setting that drove the Tesuque Police Department to technology. Chief Robert Frenier is known within his 11-officer force as being proactive, not reactive. He said he made developing the department a priority “so it could stand on its own.”
Before 2005, an officer taking a call in a remote area on the reservation could expect a lag in getting a response to an inquiry from dispatch. In some real remote spots, officers could not communicate via phone or radio at all. Fortunately, no officer was ever injured due to a lag or lack of communication. Read more about how Tesuque applied technology to address some serious and dangerous problems faced by police officers in Indian Country.
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