A grand jury recommended abolishing a small Alabama police department because of a “rampant culture of corruption" after charging five officers with a variety of crimes, officials announced Wednesday.

The mayor of Hanceville, Alabama has placed its entire police department on administrative leave, after a grand jury, said the department was “an ongoing threat to public safety.”

A grand jury recommended abolishing a small Alabama police department that it said operated as a criminal enterprise. Officials announced that five officers at the Hanceville Police Department were arrested on criminal charges.

Five of the city of Hanceville's officers, including its police chief, were arrested for tampering with evidence and other charges.

A small Alabama city has placed its entire police force on administrative leave a day after a grand jury recommended the department be abolished.

There is a rampant culture of corruption in the Hanceville Police Department, which has recently operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency,” according to the grand jury of 18 people.

An Alabama grand jury has recommended that the Hanceville Police Department be "immediately abolished," prosecutors said Wednesday.

A federal grand jury has recommended a rural Alabama police department be abolished as it indicted five of its officers with federal and misdemeanor charges.

An Alabama county grand jury recommended a local police department be “immediately abolished” as it indicted a group of law enforcement officers in the death of 911 dispatcher Christopher ...