Haines is a long way from Washington, D.C., and Haines Borough Police Chief Heath Scott has spent the last three weeks “getting used to the uniqueness of the situation” in a rural Alaska town of 2,500.
“Where I come from, hospitals are open 24 hours a day and the jail is not associated with the police department,” Scott said this week from his office in the Public Safety Building.
Scott started on the job July…
