Accessmilton visitor:The following are questions we have received over the course of the past month. We have taken the time to email the City of Milton Staff. Hopefully, they will address these and future questions as time allows.
- Anderson Lee; Accessmilton.com
1. Why does Milton need it’s own police department if all of the specialized functions have to be subcontracted to other departments? For example, SWAT callouts, traffic investigators, and property / evidence control.
2. Why offer Veteran North Fulton Officers & Firemen a defined benefits pension if there are no benefits on the back end? Why not offer a progressive 401K? For example, 2008; 2%, 2009, 2%, 2010 2%?
3. How do you plan on handling calls for service once your three or four beat officers are tied up with other calls? Do you have a mutual aid agreement? If so, what police actions does it cover and how much in our tax dollars does it costs?
4. With such limited personnel, what are you going to do if someone gets sick, has a family emergency, or gets hurt on the job or a litany of other reasons for not being able to work?
5. Who supervises the shift if the supervisor has to be off?
6. Who decided the city needed a director of public safety when the only othe agencies in the Metro area that have public safety directors are large agencies (such as Cobb & Dekalb Counties?)
7. If the public safety director position is deemed to be so important, why was it not opened up to a selection process? If this position is so important, why was somebody with only nine years of experience in limited police knowledge and no knowledge of fire department protocol selected?
8. Why are public safety workers not protected by the civil service?
9. Why does the city say it wanted to recruite veteran officers bu the benefits package offered does not make it financially possible for them to come and work for the City of Milton?
10. Are we so desperate for employees that we call people who have not submitted applications to come and take the physical agility test and why is the city of Milton entertaining hiring officers who have been recently fired or asked to resign?
11. Why are the majority of non elected Milton officials ex city of Alpharetta officials?
12. Why are you hiring an assistant public safety director who, as a fireman, has not fought a fire?
13. What qualifications were needed to be considered for the position of Public Safety Director?
14. What was the selection process for the Public Safety Director?
15. What plans do the Milton Police have for enforcing our current speed limits?
16. How many officers will our city have employed on a full time basis?
If you really want answers to these questions, rather than rumor-mongering on websites, why don’t you come out to a City Council meeting and ask the questions during “public comment??”
As I am sure the above post would agree, many folks lives are very busy. Thus, time does not afford them the luxury of going to meetings set at times that don’t work for them. Accessmilton.com provides citizens the opportunity to share their concerns, questions, and comments with others in the community without time being an issue. One would think that elected officials would keep an eye on sites referencing the city, including http://www.ajc.com, http://www.accessmilton.com, & http://www.northfulton.com in order to be informed regarding constituents opinions of a various sort.
Temura Bly; Accessmilton.com
Going to the meetingsense will not tell you ancethat the leadership of the public safety do not have the experience to build a new department the right way. You can not put these department together over night or in six months.They may think they can. You may have a Police and Fire department but not one that really knows how to do it right.They have already showed that with the type of people they have running the show. They may have gotten some good personnel from Fulton county but are they the ones that really know how to do the job? Or are they the ones that were it the right place and the right time and just happen to know the right person in the leader ship of Milton and I know that to be true.Just because you have a paper that says you have gone to a training class does not make you a police officer or a firefighter.You can have a stack of papers 3 inches deep and still not really know have to do the job. This is really true about firefighting. It takes years to learn how to do the job right.You must have a LOT of Common sense,I mean lot of it to do this job right. This is a working mans job. Not a collage job even if some people in the fire service think it should be made into one.I have seen what some of the new age firefighters and police can do. It is not even close to what the experienced ones can do!I know everyone has to start somewhere but you need to learn from the ones that have been there and done that.Not the ones who have been to the classes!
If there is such a shortage of police officers, why are there two officers (with cars) assigned to the Deerfield Parkway speed trap on any given day?
Doesn’t seem to be a shortage now, right?