PORTLAND, OR - On Friday, October 8, 2023, several members of the Oregon State Police and Portland Police Bureau met for a joint briefing, prior to deploying multiple bike teams in Downtown Portland. 

These teams went out to provide high-visibility enforcement and enhance public safety in strategic areas of the city - a collaborative effort as a part of Governor Tina Kotek’s directive for Oregon State Police to launch several new fentanyl strategic enforcement and disruption strategies statewide. 

The following is a list of actions these teams were able to take on day one:

• Issued controlled substance citations
• Arrested wanted fugitives
• Arrested a fentanyl dealer
• Processed drug evidence
• Deployed Narcan at least once
• Interacted with dozens of downtown Portland business owners and visitors

The reported actions from day one are an indication of OSP’s commitment to making our communities safer and a single component of our strategic efforts to collaborate across jurisdictions in order to disrupt the distribution and circulation of fentanyl in our communities.