UPLANDS PARK • The village of Uplands Park will switch police service beginning in January, marking the fourth different law enforcement agency to patrol the tiny North County community since 2012.

The village Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to switch from St. Louis County police services to the North County Police Cooperative, which already polices six other municipalities surrounding the community of some 440 people.

The cooperative will charge the village $2,850 a month, compared to a contract with the county which cost about $3,400 a month, said chairman of the village’s Board of Trustees B.W. Shelton.