All Hands on Deck for Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department

As the Charlotte Observer highlighted in the today's local section, if you live or work in North Charlotte, be prepared for extra police on hand this weekend. Not 'Booze it or Loose It' this time, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police are calling it 'All Hands on Deck'. CMPD North Division will have approximately 80 officers on patrol tonight. That is double what is normally on patrol. There will also be checkpoints among the extra foot and motor patrol.

CMPD's North Division is approximately 94 square miles in size. It stretches from Lake Norman in the north all the way to the Derita neighborhood in the south.