PHOTO SUBMITTED Members of the Brookhaven Police Department in summer 2026, outside the BPD office on Hwy. The Brookhaven Police Department collected more than $304,000 in fines and received nearly $1 million in grants over the past year, according to Police Chief Dustin Bairfield. The department has also received $956,000 in grant money, with only $40,000 of it needing a matching amount from the city. A new digital forensic lab will be constructed with a portion of the $250,000 grant received. I didn’t ask for any money, but I am oing to ask you to let me approve some spending of grant money later.”