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 | | From: | R_ LaCasse | | Subject: | Police chief blames staff shortage for budget overrun | | Date: | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:54:01 -0800 |
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:35:58 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
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|>Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:34:35 -0600 (CST)
|>From: Breitkreuz@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca, Garry - Assistant 1
|>Subject: Police chief blames staff shortage for budget overrun
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|>PUBLICATION: The Province
|>DATE: 2004.11.01
|>EDITION: Final
|>SECTION: News
|>PAGE: A8
|>BYLINE: Andy Ivens
|>SOURCE: The Province
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|>Police chief blames staff shortage for budget overrun
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|>Vancouver needs more police, says chief Jamie Graham, who is defending
|>the $5-million budget overrun his department is expected to rack up this
|>year.
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|>"I simply do not have enough police officers," he said.
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|>City staff have prepared a report on police spending that is scheduled
|>to be presented to city council tomorrow.
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|>Soaring overtime costs are the main reason the department will go $5.1
|>million over its $140-million budget, says the report.
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|>Last year 140 officers retired from the 1,100-member force. The wave of
|>resignations was a one-time occurrence brought about by cuts to
|>supplemental pension plans ordered by the Municipal Pension Board.
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|>Patrol levels must be kept at the same level or else public safety will
|>suffer, said Graham.
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|>The only solution is to pay officers overtime -- at double their
|>straight hourly rate -- to perform all the work.
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|>Some retired officers were hired back this year and 85 new officers were
|>recruited to fill the void.
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"Police chief blames staff shortage for budget overrun" ,That is quite
ironic, sine Graham is saying that each Cop is worth some $130,000+ per annum
plus perks like gun/property grabs.
Since most people are too overtrained or have scruples that do not
permit them to be a Cop, so they have to live on some $30,000 a year or even
benefits, and then there's the streeters being harassed by the Rich over
Harnessed Cop populace.
Maybe some streeters deserve what they get, but most of the time they
just get picked up as a formality, so the Cops can put in time at work to
upstage the "Maytag Repair Man".
Personally, I don't think a Cop is worth a Welfare cheque, let alone
some $130,000.00 per annum, but then maybe I don't know something in that
calculation or some covert ramification involved.
These triple standard thugs have smashed peoples teeth on film, for the
hell of it, and still were not convicted. This $130,000 per annum, is a big
luxury to a force of Fundamentalists with no limits to curb their insatiable
greed.
If they do provide a service to us, it is still a mystery to me for the
past 55 years and no sign of change of a possible civilian protection. The cops.
lawyers, and judges I know have drug habits from 1969 to-date, some are on
Dolophine if they get too "wyrd".
Yours in Justice
Bob
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