The Fairhope Police Department is forming a new Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) designed to identify, evaluate, and respond to the needs of the community.
Chief Bill Press has said its part of his plan to bring transparency to the Department; and provide residents with a mechanism to voice their comments/concerns about policing in Fairhope.
Press: "Its an excellent tool to prevent issues from festering. It provides the public a direct response from the police, rather than hearsay. Anyone can come before the CAC with issues about anything relating to police business. This might be traffic, illegal vendors, suspected criminal activity, noise, graffiti, or zoning violations, et al."
The Public is encouraged to attend the first meeting: Tuesday, September 8th at 6PM (Nix Senior Center).
The Fairhope Police Department is forming a new Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) designed to identify, evaluate, and respond to the needs of the community.
Chief Bill Press has said its part of his plan to bring transparency to the Department; and provide residents with a mechanism to voice their comments/concerns about policing in Fairhope.
Press: "Its an excellent tool to prevent issues from festering. It provides the public a direct response from the police, rather than hearsay. Anyone can come before the CAC with issues about anything relating to police business. This might be traffic, illegal vendors, suspected criminal activity, noise, graffiti, or zoning violations, et al."
The Public is encouraged to attend the first meeting: Tuesday, September 8th at 6PM (Nix Senior Center).
Comments
My suggestion to you Chief Press, get out there.
Your officers do a great job..See for yourself.
You are in a small town that likes to talk and I promise you 75% of what you "hear" is not going to be actuality!!
Let's hope the new Chief can "just say no." Restore law and order.
Maybe we feel safe, maybe we trust our police officers. There is all kinds of ways to say great things about the Fairhope Police Department, but for some reason people always want to concentrate on the bad and that is all that is reported. Chief Press you may have a bad few apples, please don't let the good ones suffer.. Take care of your dedicated officers and be done with the bad, it happens everyday in the workplace.. I really would hate for the good ones to get frustrated with all this going on and relocate out of Fairhope, if that becomes the case all you will have is "bad apples"!!! Money I'm sure is good for the officers but in the long run happiness means alot more..Good luck with your new wonderful city of Fairhope, all I ask is please do right by the ones who have done this city right..THANK YOU
We've all had to adjust to new bosses in our lives: it's not easy sometimes--just one of those things that has to be done from time to time.