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Biloxi Cooks spotlights Biloxi Police Department cooking team

Biloxi Cooks posted on Facebook in August 2026 linking to YouTube videos that featured the Biloxi Police Department’s cooking team, according to the social media post.

Biloxi Cooks is a local food-focused page that shares videos and music related to cooking and community events, and the post included YouTube’s standard invitation to “enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.” The post itself gave few additional details about the content.

The appearance of a police department cooking team on a local culinary channel underscores a growing trend in community policing and public outreach, where food-related events and shared meals are used to build relationships between law enforcement and residents. Such initiatives aim to humanize officers, foster goodwill and create informal opportunities for conversation.

Details about where the videos were filmed, who participated or whether the content was part of a larger event were not provided in the post. We will provide more information as it becomes available.

Jon Myers

Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."

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