Monday, March 12, 2012
Details of the increase will be released Thursday in the County Executive's proposed FY 2013 operating budget.
Montgomery County’s police force may soon receive a much-needed boost in numbers and resources, according to Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett. Leggett announced last week during a public safety meeting in Montgomery Village, that his proposed operating budget for fiscal year 2013 will include a “significant” increase for police personnel, specifically mentioning the 6th District. Details of the proposed budget will be released Thursday. Currently Montgomery County has one of the lowest ratios of sworn officers to civilian residents of surrounding jurisdictions, and all sections within the department are feeling the strain. At 1.19 sworn officers to every 1,000 residents, the county is far below the national average of 2.7 officers …
Monday, January 23, 2012
The police force needs to add officers on the streets and increase special response teams to keep up with the county’s pace of growth, Police Chief Tom Manger told the Montgomery County Council Public Safety Committee.
Without more police officers patrolling the streets, Montgomery County will be unprepared to handle future growth, Police Chief Tom Manger told the county council last Thursday. The police force needs to add officers on the streets and increase special response teams to keep up with the county’s pace of growth, Manger told the Montgomery County Council Public Safety Committee. As Montgomery County has developed with a growing population, the county police department has had to adapt to what Manger calls a more urban style of policing and desperately needs more officers. While patrolling rural areas of the county is usually sufficient with just officers in cars, higher density has meant putting more officers on bike or on foot in more …
Thursday, January 5, 2012
The number of sworn officers in Montgomery County is "lean," officials say.
With fewer than 1.2 sworn officers for every 1,000 residents, the staffing levels of the Montgomery County Police Department are less than half the national average. Nationally, county jurisdictions averaged 2.7 officers per 1,000 inhabitants in 2010, according to statistics compiled by an FBI study. "We're pretty lean," said Capt. Paul Starks, Montgomery County Police spokesman. "We currently have 1,159 police officers. Three years ago we had 1,200." Staffing concerns are on the minds of county officials, and opinions differ on whether Montgomery is adequately covered. Police Chief Tom Manger has submitted his fiscal 2013 budget to the county, though the details have not yet been made public. As County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) …
B Allen
8:26 am on Saturday, May 5, 2012
Instead of incresing the number of police to write tickets in order to get more revenue for the county, this knucklehead Leggett (and the equally if not worse county council) need to cut ALL the freebees (TAXPAYERS DOLLARS) they give to illegals and use it to have a police force and other services we are entitled to as taxpayers. How many MILLIONS of taxpayers dollars are given to illegals here … more ›