DeKalb County faces a 40 million dollar deficit, and the Recorders Court cannot account for 90 -110 million dollars in lost revenue. In a time when the county, as all of us, face uncertain economic future, Chief Tebo continues with his wasteful spending.
Chief Rancifer has been assigned a lieutenant as his aide. Of course the aide is assigned a take home car. Aides, no matter if they are civilian or hold rank, are nothing more than a secretary. Their job description is answering the telephone, fielding complaints, typing directed documents and general clerical work.
Why are all the lieutenants acting as secretaries assigned take home cars? Have you ever witnessed a chief called in at an ungodly hour, mush less with his secretary in tow with a note pad? This too could prove costly for the taxpayers. Should one of these chiefs stop too sudden, the fire department would have to be called to extricate the aides head out of the chief’s ass.
And of course their working hours are 9 -5, weekends and all holidays off.
We are sure there are well qualified civilian employees within the many departments of the county that could be transferred or ohters can be hired to do the same job at a much lesser salary without the need of a take home car.
Bottom line is: These take home cars are nothing more than a perk and indeed a great waste of the taxpayers. This benefit package for the sworn secretaries is probably over $100.000.00. per year. How many secretaries in private industry rank that kind of money with a car kicked in?
Everyone seems to be in the mode of “change will come” after the first of the year. Bolton should not be given a free ride until then at the expense of the taxpayers. These sworn ranked secretaries should not be given a free ride on the backs of the working rank and file in the streets, fighting bad guys and putting their lives on the line daily.
Bolton needs to be held accountable now. Not tomorrow or in January, but now! The commissioners need to make a stand and the citizens should make a demand!
Friday, November 21, 2008
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You forgot to mention the precinct administrative officers and motor maintenance officers. Both of which are Sgt. positions!
Why an Admin and why someone responsible for making sure our patrol cars are maintained and repaired need to have badges and carry guns is also a good question.
We need officers on the street, not sitting behind a desk doing a job that can be done by a civilian or a retired officer.
The old argument about those being "sensitive positions" doesn't really hold water. A civilian can keep something confidential.
This is almost ridiculous:
1) You do need sworn personnel to act as aides. You cannot train civilians to understand, analyze, and react as a police officer. Period.
2) Hiring a civilian to that position would cost the county money. Those Lieutenants are going to exist anyway, even if you bump them back to Sergeant and the subsequent Sergeant's back to MPO, you then have to hire someone to be the aide. Figure at least 20,000K for that, and you have a net loss in payroll for the county.
3) Continuing to harp on the issue of take-home cars is going to cause people to tune you right out. It's not the issue to be fighting, and certainly not representative of the highest amount of waste spending in the department. Every officer should have a take-home car -- the visibility that it would gain for the county would be phenomenal. Fight that fight instead. I'm not going to hype up my desire to care about Lieutenants getting take-home cars, regardless of their on-call status. Good for them.
[Edited to add: I do not think that civilian employees who are not on-call should have take-home cars. I consider that a separate issue.]
the bottom line is that everyone from MPO and up should be assigned a take home car, why can gwinnett affor it and not dekalb?? I agree tebo has wasted money time and time again. Why doesnt the media pick up on the fact that DSO was able to purchase cameras and tasers with certain funds that tebo stated was not legal? so did DSO break the law or did tebo lie to us?
I wish the author of these post would stop believing everything written in the AJC. There are no tickets missing at Recorders Court. There isn't a 100 million dollars in lost revenue. Officers are to investigate. Do your own investigation. Stop believing all that nonsense.
If you are waiting for the citizens to help you, you are only wasting your time writing comments.
Only a good CEO will turn Dekalb Police Dept around from the B.S. that Vernon help created.
The best thing you can do for yourself is get out of debt and save the part-time job money.If you are in debt read Dave Ramsey's book on debt reduction.
Who ever the original poster is of this article should really get some facts straight. There are so many false statements that it's funny.
I agree there are so many false staements in this article. One thing is that Rancifer is a pilot and does get called out and also works the street at times. Some positions do need take home cars but not all like the civilian positions do not need one it is a wastse of money
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