12/5/2005
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Mayor, criminal justice committee to discuss keeping 48 police officers, other public safety needs
INDIANAPOLIS - Mayor Bart Peterson will meet with a subcommittee of the Marion County Criminal Justice Planning Council today begin work to keep 48 Indianapolis police officers on the street and meeting other public safety funding needs.
Since Indianapolis Works and the police consolidation failed, the city is in danger of losing 48 Indianapolis police officers in 2006, on top of officers and firefighters that are already leaving the Indianapolis Police Department and Indianapolis Fire Department.
Last week, Mayor Peterson stressed that even though budgets are extremely tight, now was not the time to lay off police officers.
To that end, he asked the Criminal Justice Planning Council, the bipartisan group of local officials created in 2003 to address jail overcrowding and other issues in the criminal justice system, to help craft a bi-partisan plan to:
• Avoid layoffs of 48 police officers;
• Start a new police recruit class;
• Start a new IFD recruit class;
• Fund additional sheriff’s deputies; and
• Pay for new jails beds.
The committee approved his proposal, and Sheriff Frank Anderson, City-County Councillors Mary Moriarty Adams and Phil Borst, Prosecutor Carl Brizzi, County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler and Mayor Peterson volunteered for the committee.
The committee will begin work tonight by discussing Councillor Borst’s 26-point plan to streamline public safety and Sheriff Anderson’s collaboration plan.
WHEN: Today - Monday, December 5; 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: City-County Building, Rm. 118
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