At least one supporter of the Philadelphia Police Department has seen fit to use the pages of the Daily News to throw down the gauntlet for new commissioner Ramsey:
SO WE HAVE a mayor who thinks we have to go outside to find a qualified person to run the police department.
Just another slap in the face to the four deputy commissioners and the many chiefs and inspectors who have given decades of service to the city. You have a lot of very good commanders who would do a very fine job running the show.
Hopefully, the new commissioner will get rid of the hangers-on and place them were (sic) they might get some experience being a police officer. Just a few hints for the new commissioner:
Talk to the FOP president before you make the decisions like you did in Washington. We have a strong contract and changes have to be negptiated (sic), and we also have one of the best arbitration records. So, if the city doesn't mind paying out a lot of money, then they will let you make any the changes you want - but remember, this is a civil-service town, something that guy from New York couldn't understand when he was commissioner.
Setting aside the misspellings, grammatical errors and ambiguous "they" that keeps on cropping up, I'm wondering how, if the commissioner can only appoint x number of deputies, he would clear out the "hangers-on." And if the letter writer emphasizes the point that this is a "civil-service town" why would he recommend something that goes against civil-service protocol?
It's not clear whether the letter writer is a cop himself, but it is an indication of what Chief Ramsey can expect.
Comments (1)
The letter is proof positive why Nutter did the right thing and hired outside of the local force. Corruption, laziness, ineffectiveness....thats what you get I guess from the PPD.
Posted by Patricio | December 5, 2007 3:45 PM