The Hanceville police chief and four of his officers are accused of mishandling or removing materials from the department's evidence room.

Five Hanceville Police officers have been indicted on multiple charges. A grand jury is calling to immediately abolish the entire department.

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 small Alabama city of Hanceville, located about 45 miles north of Birmingham, placed its entire police force on administrative leave a day after the grand jury recommendation.

The grand jury said that the Hanceville Police Department, which had eight officers as of last August, had been operating “as more of a criminal enterprise.”

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.

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 grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers,

A grand jury has called for an Alabama police department to be immediately disbanded after its chief and four officers were indicted.