Millbrae Police Department: To Be or Not to Be?
The city will hold two town-hall meetings next week.
The City of Millbrae will discuss the future of the Millbrae Police Department next week. The public is invited to attend the meetings, which will be held on Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 9 a.m. in the Chetcuti Room, located at 450 Poplar Ave.
Learn more about the issue:
Millbrae hoped to merge the police department with San Bruno, but the cost-savings were insufficient...read more.
On Aug. 30, Chief Neil Telford told the city council he would be leaving Millbrae...read more.
On Oct. 11, city council members said they needed a breakdown of all the financial savings of outsourcing, expected to be about $167,000 per year, before they could make a decision. The council said that officers’ overtime costs were not included in the estimate...read more.
Fully staffing the Millbrae Police Department with a police chief and other employees would cost the city approximately $410,000 more per year than it is currently paying. Here is a comparison of police chief salaries in San Mateo County.
Millbrae will become the third city in the county if it chooses to contract with the Sheriff’s Office. San Carlos was the first almost a year ago...read more.
Millbrae Patch conducted a poll asking residents whether the city should outsource its police department or find alternative ways to fund it. About 80 percent of respondents are against outsourcing, and several people shared their thoughts on the issue...read more.
Check out the Millbrae Police Department outsourcing topic page on Millbrae Patch for all related articles.
Robert
9:22 pm on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Please come to the public meetings on November 1st and 5th and help SAVE our Millbrae Police Department!! DO NOT LET our current City Council, who are only going to be in office a couple of more weeks, make a devastating decision to outsource our police department. This is an important decision and should be made by the residents in our community, not council who won't be in office. Please tell your friends, family and neighbors to attend. Our public safety is at stake!