I have said previously that I believe that police officers should be paid enough to afford to live within, and be an integral part of, the communities they serve and protect. John's Creek offers housing stipends to it's officers who choose to live within the City and I believe it's step in the right direction in giving these officers a stake in the community as well making them available for emergency calls if the need arises.
Georgia Law prohibits public employees from being required to live within the boundaries of a municipality as a condition of employment. However, there are cities that have cleverly gone around such laws by requiring their employees to live not necessarily in the municipality, but within a certain distance of their work station.
If Dunwoody were to become a city, I'm not sure if the City Counsel would set such strict requirements on residency, but like John's Creek they may choose to offer reasonable housing benefits for those who do decide to live in the city limits.
What Dunwoody resident wouldn't want a Dunwoody Police car parked in the neighborhood from time to time and think of the huge gas savings on those take home cars.
Just an idea that was reinforced after seeing this news clip.
www.dunwoodynorth.org Monday, May 19, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
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The issue of uniform officers getting take home cars is dead and will never come to pass, especially in the time of soaring gas prices and an uncertain economic future.
Like everyone else, my household has to make concessions because of fuel cost.
Then why is the police department not making concessions? Why does TeBo not take away administrative cars of those people not on call? Is Keisha Williams on call? (Oh wait, someone may call her about a 2 for 1 margarita special.)
Why do the ICP officers have take home cars? Is TeBo afraid some community meeting may break out in the wee hours of the night? ICP accounts for 50 cars alone.
What is diesel fuel cost for the 6 buses (when they are running and not broken down)?
Why did Channel 46 leave out DeKalb? Odds are DeKalb has the most administrative take home cars in the state.
I can only imagine what Terrell is billing the county for his little camping excursions; I know my cost is killing me!
Yes, I also noticed that Dekalb was left out of the news story. I I guess that because we don't officially have a department wide take home car program, they wrongly assumed we don't have a large number of people with take home cars.
In passing, someone mentioned the department's Financial Officer....they said he has a brand spanking new Chev. Impala.
Why does he have a NEW take home Impala while CID is driving a number of old cars? I've heard that one detective is driving a confiscated Focus with no airconditioning!
Is the Financial Officer on call?
Talking about the cost of gas.
Why do these higher up's that ride alone, don't answer calls and don't carry equipment drive around big Expeditions and Tahoes?
Isn't a pimped out Crown Vic enough?
-BEST BUY DISCOUNT FOR PD-
Just FYI...the Best Buy store at Northlake is giving all emergency service employees a employee discount which equals to about 35-40% off on any item in the store on Sunday May 25th, bewtween 7:30pm-9:30pm. The store is honoring all "heroes" and closing the store except to fire,pd, ems etc...so if you have been wanting that new plasma next Sunday is your chance.
I completely agree that the non essential personnel don"t need cars< but Meeka Parrish does take on_call duties as PIO and responds to scenes from home< thus she should have a car
Taking cars from CID who live more than thirty miles away will just hurt the detectives who live closer< as they"ll have to take the other detectives" on_call shifts>
And did anyone else notice that Fire just got about fifteen new Impalas? Clearly it"s got to do with our department< and not something higher up in the County!!
I completely agree that the non essential personnel don"t need cars< but Meeka Parrish does take on_call duties as PIO and responds to scenes from home< thus she should have a car
Taking cars from CID who live more than thirty miles away will just hurt the detectives who live closer< as they"ll have to take the other detectives" on_call shifts>
And did anyone else notice that Fire just got about fifteen new Impalas? Clearly it"s got to do with our department< and not something higher up in the County!!
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