Long session with Vernon. Media will highlight the best of it. Bolton clearly had a lot of freedom to operate as he wanted. Vernon encouraged him to take time off because being police chief is a 24/7 job.
Vernon didn't mind him having as many cars as necessary to do his job "He's the police chief" was repeated numerous times throughout Vernon's testimony.
Vernon's lawyer Dwight Thomas was here and wore dark sunglasses throughout Vernon's testimony.
When county attorney began to Cross Vernon about when he took over as CEO if he expected his employees to work a little harder. He stated he lead by example. Just after that he abruptly asked for a break...a 1 minute break. Left holding his throat and was followed out by his attorney. County attorney quickly followed the pair into the hall. Upon resuming County attorney asked why he needed a break and if he talked with his attorney. He said "Yes, I was tired. You've kept me waiting for two days."
The nutshell is that Vernon felt he needed to attract a high calibre Chief to DeKalb and knew Bolton's family would remain in Dallas so he gave him the right to take as much comp time as he rightfully earned. Vernon felt Bolton always asked for the time appropriately and was always just a phone call away and could still manage business from Dallas.
Regarding the trip taken to TX during the investigation after the officers were killed Vernon said "It was a big blow to him (the officers being killed), it was a big blow to me. He had just previously mentioned that Bolton had promised to work night and day to catch killers. The county attorney said "I thought you just said he would work night and day...". Vernon quickly interjected that the killers were thankfully quickly caught.
Debbie Boyd testifying now. Hearing has ended for today...waiting to see when Day 3 will be held. Will inform you if they inform us.
Stay tuned!
Thursday, June 11, 2009
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LoFlyer Here, Google kills my password once a month just for amusement.
Just so I get this straight, Vern needed a "high-calibre yes man" and Bolton was available. Vern throws away 75 thousand dollars paid for a national job search for suitable recruits resulting in three viable candidates and Vern throws it all away for the steller uber-celeb of Texas, Terrel Bolton. Vernon states that he and Bolton shared similar work ethics. That must be true because I only found Vern once in his office over eight years of "issues". We couldn't even find Vern for several days after the county attorney committed suicide. Good 'ole Vern was in Athens, Greece, and for the life of me I cannot understand why the AJC or the Champion didn't hammer him.
PS, as for those who think I speak and whine too much about non DKPD county subjects, get over it. I perform 125 percent and if you don't like that I care deeply about county activities and bitch about 'em then tune me out. That's how I feel about you.
LoFlyer, you're comments and support are greatly appreciated!
LoFlyer...The negative comment about is definately the view of all of us. Keep yopur thoughts and comments coming.
Does anyone know what specifically was being done at the consultant meeting in TX that could not wait a couple days? I've always wanted to know what was more important than being a leader for the department in the days after two officers were killed.
On the one hand, he needed to be there for the family, the department, to coordinate the investigation and let the citizens know everything is under control. On the other hand, he had a pre-set meeting with consultants, which he decided was more important.
What is it that was more important than dealing with the aftermath of one of the worst days in his force's history? Anyone know?
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