Sunday, April 27, 2008
Anonymous Agrees With Fly on The Wall
It would be a good idea to only have take home cars only in DeKalb County IF WE COULD ALL AFFORD TO LIVE IN DEKALB COUNTY. But we dont all live in the County. I live outside of the County because I don't make enough to buy the nice home in the nice neighborhoods where I can not raise my family without fear of retaliation. It would be safe to say that a majority of Dekalb County officers do not live in the County. So should we be penalized further? Heck, Tebo doesn't even live in the State of Georgia and he gets all the take home cars & SUVs he wants. Give us a take home car will help us save on gas money and boost the Morale. But that would be like asking for a simple 4% raise wouldn't it? Until the BOC do something positive we will continue to lose officers to other departments that have take home cars and let them take it out of their jurisdiction.
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Take home cars are cheap when you look at the cost of manhours wasted by the current system.
Think about how many additional hours we could spend patroling the streets instead of....
* waiting for the previous watch to bring the limited number of cars back to the precinct.
* coming off the streets early because the next watch needs cars.
* checking, loading and unloading cars at the beginning and the end of EACH AND EVERY SHIFT..... and waiting for the previous officer to unload his/her stuff.
* transporting prisoners for officers working part-time jobs.
These simple activities result in atleast an hour to an hour and a half each day being wasted and paid for by the County.
Multiply that by 300 to 400(the number of officers answering 911 calls) and you will see that the cost of take home cars is pretty cheap.
From a dollars and cents standpoint: multiply those hours by the average hourly wage for each officer. Lets say $20 per hour times 300 officers.
300 x $20= $ $6000 per day
4 x $6000 = $24,000 wasted per four day work week
52 x $24000 = $1,248,000.00 wasted on an annual basis.
Looking at productivity from this perspective might be a little odd to County Administrators, but it works in the private sector.
aske the number of officers that have lived in the county and worked as apartment courtsey officers and have had there apartments broke into and personal vehicles broke into, I know of one officer several years ago that lived in one they not only broke into his unit they spray painted stuff inside saying they knew he was a cop, if the command staff wont live in those areas why should we.
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