The Dierks Police Department has been suspended with pay for not completing some training and standards, an official said.
The department failed to meet the firing-range standards and has not completed the racial-profiling class, Mayor Terry Mounts said.
The Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards will work with Dierks to meet the standards, he said.
Mounts said the profiling class is a two-hour course.
While the Police Department works to meet the standards, the Howard County sheriff's office will provide patrols and answer law enforcement calls for Dierks, a town of approximately 1,230 in Howard County in southwest Arkansas.
The City Council has called a meeting for 6 p.m. Monday to discuss the Police Department. It will be in the Dierks Municipal Building at 200 W. Third St.
State Desk on 06/17/2018