Good call Casey! You will be a great chief of police...

Whatelseisnew,

That's why we're going back to the old system. To answer your question, RPD's pay raises are based on merit. However, we haven't received merit raises in 3 years. No cost of living either, not to mention that the city raised our insurance premiums for the last two years.

We were only using the new system, that's being nixed, so VanMeter & Associates could market it & sell it elsewhere. It was all about $$$$. You can guess who is an associate of VanMeter I'm sure.

John Q public will never know how fortunate they are that this thing is gone.

Yeah god forbid PUBLIC employees should have to meet any kind of performance measurement. Granted it would be difficult to measure, but it can be done and should be done. Yes the Police have a difficult job, but they should have to meet performance criteria to continue working and to receive any raises or bonuses assuming bonuses exist for those folks.

1. Deck-Brown is the Chief. She's the Interim-Chief & our Deputy-Chief.

2. We do have GPS on all of our vehicles and have had it for quite some time.

3. This change in eval does not "lower standards". This system, that we are nixing, was self entered and could easily be manipulated so that even a low performing employee could shine (if he knew how to fluff the system). It didn't measure quality of anything. The old system used input from the employee's supervisor and other compliance data that was accurate and could not be "fluffed".

They need to put a GPS transmitter on each patrol car so they know where police officers are at any time. People would be surprised to see what the GPS reported. We would see that we're paying for a lot of wasted time by the RPD. ConservativeVoter

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I'd bet they had tracking devices on their cars before most of us had GPS units.

I dont consider a trash collector or a secretary the same as a cop. And while this may be a bump for the moralle but if your doing a good job anyway this may be a chance for advancement. Expecting all cops to be good is like expecting all the apples at the Farmers Market to be good too.

Relic, while the same evaluation process is followed, the police are most certainly held to a different standard. For that, the retirement system is different, salaries are different, etc., but the evaluation system is the same. Think of working in a department store. You work in the shoe department (no commission); your wife works as a cashier. While your jobs are distinctly different, they essentially have many of the same concepts -- show up to work when scheduled, cater to the customer, be a good employee. You both do your jobs and do them well - punctual, positive customer comments, go the extra mile when asked, etc. Is it proper for both of you to have a different evaluation system because you have different jobs at the same store? You are both good employees and the same performance is expected from both of you whether or not you have different jobs. Outstanding, above average, below standard , etc., is the same in the shoe dept. as in the cashier pool.

Lower standards mean more unqualified people in the ranks of Law Enforcement. This is disappointing.

Well done, Chief! You listened and acted. Morale just got a bump. Keep up the good work!

She is not the Police Chief yet, and will never be

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