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Perkins Treatment of the SPD
10-10-07



          This website has continually stressed that officers of the Selma Police Department have been treated like a red-headed stepchild. They are mismanaged, misinformed, mistreated, and have no motivation thru competent leadership. The following postings will reinforce our position.



          You can see that the pay for FEMA (which is what this job fair being held at Ramada is for) is over $2.00 per hour more than an Academy Schooled, fully qualified policeman. This website has stressed at every opportunity that the SPD is a training facility so that our officers can step up to higher paying law enforcement jobs in other areas. Perkins, this City has got to get up off your personal spending money (which is, in fact, the City general fund) and support our police officers by giving them a lump sum pay raise. The public is suffering because of your inability to manage money and people.



          The above is a letter concerning pay raises to our police officers. This letter is telling the Selma Police officers to, once again, bite the bullet. A 5% raise for our police officers is nothing but an attempt to pay a cost of living increase, which in itself, is not nearly enough to meet cost of living expenses. Captain Harrell was exempted because of his rank. Is this any way to encourage retention? Hopefully the SPD evaluation will point out that Perkins has mismanaged our police department and that appointment powers must be taken from him and returned to the Council!



          Perkins is obsessed with computers and technology. His playtime is costing us more than plenty. He keeps his little computer center locked up in the SPD building. We wonder if that is part of his spy network on voter information. You can never tell who is listening to you or monitoring your personal life. We are well aware of this. Notice the Information Technology Director will make 3x as much as our police officers and doesn't have to confront crime. We wonder who Perkins can manipulate into this job. Be assured they will answer to and be controlled by him and noone else.

          You can see by this posting that Perkins would be happier if we had no law in this City. Maybe if crime involved his family he would sing a different tune. He has got to go!!