Within the next couple of weeks, District 2, under the direction of Deputy Chief (Austin Powers) Waddleton, will institute a district “NET Team”. This team will consist of at least 6 officers and a lieutenant. Once again the command staff is pulling from the already dangerously low line uniform officers.
Knowing the operating hours and off days will be erratic; will these officers be rewarded with take home cars like ICP? District 2, just as District 1 can not afford to lose one car, much less 7. As it stands now, the department has no replacement cars until the next fiscal year and only then if approved by the Board of Commissioners.
Yet TeBo is holding between 12 – 15 black Crown Vics behind the fences at motor maintenance. Is it his intention to issue these cars to the new NET Team? Oh, and you can multiple this by 2, because you know Colonel Klink, aka Deputy Chief Horner will want his own NET Team in District 1 too.
If these cars are not to be used for the NET Teams, then what will be their use? Are they in fact replacement units and Bolton will waste even more money having them repainted, or will they be put on the line as is?
Let’s not forget, one of the many reasons Dallas P.D. fired Bolton was because he was hiding badly needed police cars and issuing them as rewards, not when needed in critical areas.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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Havent heard anything about take home cars, possibly assigned units since this specialized unit will be operating out of South Precinct. With assigned units it doesnt mean extra miles for the Officers in their POV's. Granted I have taken your side with the entire ICP issue and take home cars, since they do not handle calls, or do much more than write a few tickets here and there. Word is this NET team will function as prior NET teams and try reduce the number of residential burglaries, not give grandma a seatbelt ticket just for stats...However I would assume there would be a possibility of the officers working this "NET" team flex their hours and assist patrol when backed up on calls in different precincts (unlike ICP does)
Cut the ICP unit in half to replace the officers taken from the NET team. Are you kidding me 11 officers per precinct? that is more than some precincts have for an entire watch.
Add yet another Suburban he has pulled into his stable from Narcotics.
I won't get into awarding police cars and such but the cars sitting at MM do not belong to the police department. Fleet Maintenance will assign the cars to the PD as others are taken off line. Our fleet doesn't actually grow unless increasing the number was approved in the budget which it wasn't.
I think the idea of a NET,FIT, COBRA, or whatever is an excellent idea. You'll never have an impact just by answering calls. You need small units to penetrate areas and have a positive effect. Can an already depleted uniform division handle another decrease in manpower, I don't know, but maybe with the new academy's coming out it might help take some of the sting out.
Anyone know what they'll be announcing?
DEKALB CHIEF JUDGE AND POLICE CHIEF TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE
WHAT: DeKalb County Chief Judge and Police Chief will hold a joint press conference to announce a new initiative.
WHO: DeKalb Chief Judge, Joy R. Walker
DeKalb Police Chief, Terrell Bolton
Police Staff
WHEN: Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bobby Burgess Building (outside in front of Magistrate Court)
3630 Camp Circle
Decatur, GA 30032
Lets see what could the new name for a new group of officers to fight crime. GAP- Broken Arrow- Super NET forget ICP- well I'm lost on what the name will be.
Maybe they're gonna announce a Domestic Violence Initiative headed up by Chief Graham and Flemister
Don't worry, you'll have a surplus of cars when the north precict closes.
Best guess.......
Those cars will be returned to motor maintenance and an equal number will be assigned to staff aids.
I think that this new unit will actually be a good thing. We need an ass kicking unit to go out there and actually be aggressive on crime and not tickets. ICP does a lot of hand shaking and baby holding. We need a unit to go out there and handle some of these perps and treat them like perps.
What we really need are experienced officers in greater numbers to answer calls and patrol the territory!
We don't need the class currently on FTO to simply step in try to take up the slack created by moving veteran officers to specialized units.
It will be 6 months on their own before they get comfortable with the idea of riding alone!
We need these specialized units, but that is a luxury that we can't currently afford.
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