FHPD Press Releases

With holiday festivities rapidly approaching, the Fairview Heights Police Department announced that it will participate in a statewide impaired driving awareness campaign from Dec. 17 through Jan. 3. If your celebration will involve alcohol or other impairing...

The Fairview Heights Police Department issued eleven seatbelt and child safety seat citations during the recent Thanksgiving enforcement effort. Our agency also issued fourteen other citations to include 4 citations for Suspended/Revoked licenses. Law enforcement...

On Monday, November 29, 2021, at approximately 9:50 p.m., officers responded to the area of Potomac Drive at Concord Drive, to investigate a report of several gunshots being fired in the area.  Officers arrived to find several witnesses, who reported seeing gunshots...

The Fairview Heights Police Department, today announced it’s joining with the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police and nearly 200 local police and sheriff’s departments to remind motorists to Click It or Ticket and Driver Sober or Get...

On Monday, October 11, 2021 at approximately 9:30 p.m., officers responded to a traffic crash on IL Rt 161 just north of Old Lincoln Trail in Fairview Heights.  The crash was called in on 9-1-1, by the driver of the only vehicle involved, who reported a pedestrian had...

On September 23, 2021, at approximately 5:00 p.m., officers from the Fairview Heights Police Department were dispatched to the 400 block of Anita in reference to a motor vehicle theft complaint. Prior to officers arriving on scene, a call was received for a vehicular...

On Friday, 09/17/2021, the FHPD responded to numerous calls for thefts of catalytic converters stolen off of vehicles overnight.  The FHPD was aware that the Swansea Police Department had arrested a subject that was in possession of a number of catalytic converters...

On Thursday, 09/16/2021, at approximately 9:30pm, Fairview Heights Police Officers were dispatched to an Armed Robbery that had just occurred at Circle K, 10070 Bunkum Road.  A suspect had entered the gas station, brandished a gun at the clerk, and demanded the...

As Labor Day and the unofficial end of summer near, The Fairview Height Police Department is partnering with law enforcement throughout the state to stop impaired driving and help save lives. Impaired driving kills more than 10,000 people in the United States each...

  On 08/10/2021 at approximately 6:50 pm FHPD officers located a stolen pickup truck on the parking lot of Walgreens, 6505 N Illinois St, Fairview Heights.  Officers were aware that the vehicle had been involved in several recent crimes in the area.  When...