The Shields Team

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Monday, January 24, 2011

City Wide Team Resorts to Lies

The Citywide Team is spinning the facts: the Shields Team has made it clear in our carefully thought-out platform what will happen when an officer is involved in a shooting. We will send out one of three experienced violent crimes detectives – Danny Gorman A1 V/C, Saul Del Rivero Cold Case, or Tim Murphy A2 V/C – to each and every shooting. Their role will be to properly protect the officer involved from the OCIC and IPRA and safeguard their rights during the conduct of their investigation.

Acting not only as a fellow officer who has first-hand knowledge of a similar stressful experience, they will serve as an FOP rep to ensure the proper procedures are followed and to prevent the City and IPRA from changing rules from day to day. These detectives running on the Shields Team are there to protect your future and livelihood at the scene of a shooting. Why not have those that investigate police shootings as their daily jobs in the detective division?

While discussing our platform at role calls around the City, it has been pointed out to us that the City Wide has engaged in outright lies at our expense, spreading stories that we will only send the officers that are lawyers to take statements. That could not be further than the truth. Again, we choose to send one of three experienced detectives to walk officers through the process.

We suggest the City Wide Team stick to the facts, and maybe, just maybe, come up with a concrete, consistent plan that is bigger than ordering pizzas for officers involved.
 

2 comments:

  1. It has been stated that the current FOP administration has lied and refused to explain a lawsuit filed and payment made to a former employee and that board memebers where not allowed to review the full FOP budget.

    If you are elected will you provide this information? Not just going forward but from the past? Or after getting in to office will we here "we can not disclose pass payments?"

    If you are running on a platform of being honest and the current group is not you need to show the facts and not just make statments that it happened

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  2. I will be more than happy to provide that info if elected. As a due-paying member, I'd like to know myself. This is my money, your money too, that goes to FOP and expenditures should be accounted for.

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