Originally Posted by JCM1975

Does anyone know why the Quincy Police doesn't have their own SRT/ SWAT team? A city their size should. Why depend on the State or BPD when QPD has just as qualified Officers?

Originally Posted by JCM1975

Does anyone know why the Quincy Police doesn't have their own SRT/ SWAT team? A city their size should. Why depend on the State or BPD when QPD has just as qualified Officers?

Originally Posted by Delta784

We can barely get tires for our cruisers, and you think we should have a SWAT team??

Some of the things I'd rather have than a SWAT team....safe minimum staffing levels, shotguns in the cruisers, about 5 more K-9's, portable radios that don't make it sound like you're talking through a bucket of water, cruisers that don't explode during pursuits of violent felons, a station that doesn't look like a depth-charged U-Boat whenever it rains, the list goes on.

Originally Posted by 94c

we have a minimum staffing level in our contract. if we go below then they are forced to hire o.t. without a minimum to go down to, what determines if someone can take the night off or not?

Originally Posted by Delta784

According to our last, and our present labor lawyer, minimum staffing under collective bargaining is illegal.

Originally Posted by 94c

well, we have had it forever. and they have tried to take it away through negotiations in the past but we have fought it and eventually held on to it over the years.

Originally Posted by 94c

well, we have had it forever. and they have tried to take it away through negotiations in the past but we have fought it and eventually held on to it over the years.

Originally Posted by Delta784

I hope you're right, I'm going to check on it again later today.

Originally Posted by 94c

how can I not be right? on a shift the minimum is "x" officers. If you want a comp or personal day you cannot have it off once you reach the minimum. If you go below because of sick days or a short term IOD then overtime is hired to get you back to the minimum. It's been this way for the 24 years that I have been here. Are you trying to say that I have the only department in the state that has this? If so, then maybe I should have kept my mouth shut and not given away this dirty little secret

Originally Posted by Delta784

I think you misunderstood me.....I'm talking about minimum staffing by contract, which would be full staffing. For example, we have 13 sectors, but a minimum of 10 are staffed on certain shifts. A contract priviso that all 13 be staffed 24/7 is illegal, or so our attorney said.

Originally Posted by 94c

so if you go below the "10" do you hire o/t?
if so, is that contractual or department policy?
I think I'm missing something here

Originally Posted by 94c

well I'm not going to tell you what department I work for because obviously our contract is illegal. our minimum is spelled out in our contract. as a matter of fact, our contract includes increasing that minimum during christmas and new years.

Originally Posted by JCM1975

Does anyone know why the Quincy Police doesn't have their own SRT/ SWAT team? A city their size should. Why depend on the State or BPD when QPD has just as qualified Officers?