Mike Scott"s manpower disaster we are # 67 out 69

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I'd like to congratulate all the females yesterday on there promoti........oh wait nevermind. 2 more male lieutenants and another male captain.

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You are an absolute boot licker. Nothing more needs to be said. A true waste of C02.

CO2, carbon Dioxide? Didn't you mean O2 as in Oxygen? Oh, well. An attempt was made....

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Soooo apparently you have to have been one of JH or Snyder's boys to have been promoted. Just an FYI folks patrol is the pit to nowhere, if you are patrol you might as well bag it up and enjoy the rest of your career, with NO hope of advancement. What's that you say, patrol where you need to make split second decisions at the drop of a hat only to be Monday morning quarterbacked by everyone. The most diverse position in the agency where you learn so much is completely disregarded as the ultimate career ender. You can't even laterally move because speciality unit ALL promote from with in.

So let me get this straight, you expect for a Sgt. On the road with no investigative experience to be promoted to LT. in a speciality unit? That's just dumb. If you want to advance you need to be a detective.

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So let me get this straight, you expect for a Sgt. On the road with no investigative experience to be promoted to LT. in a speciality unit? That's just dumb. If you want to advance you need to be a detective.

Wow you must be one of the idiots who were promoted to Lieutenant after a year being a sergeant. Who said anything about the patrol sergeant not ever being a detective moron, with no investigated experience? Just because you're a patrol Sergeant doesn't mean you were never a detective, it saddens me how stupid people are. But I guess that's what you get when you solve one homicide before getting promoted. I can't even believe how stupid that last comment was. I guarantee you are in a position you have no business being in with that type of ignorant thinking.

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Wow you must be one of the idiots who were promoted to Lieutenant after a year being a sergeant. Who said anything about the patrol sergeant not ever being a detective moron, with no investigated experience? Just because you're a patrol Sergeant doesn't mean you were never a detective, it saddens me how stupid people are. But I guess that's what you get when you solve one homicide before getting promoted. I can't even believe how stupid that last comment was. I guarantee you are in a position you have no business being in with that type of ignorant thinking.

Well what you wrote may be true, may be not, but one thing for sure you are a coward and a crybaby, always has to be a reason someone like one doesn't get promoted and its cause you suck

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Sheriff seeks $20M more for law enforcement manpower
By ANNE MARIE APOLLO, amapollo@naplesnews.com
Thursday, June 2, 2005
With an eye on increasing investigative manpower and the number of deputies in courts and on patrol, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott submitted a budget Wednesday asking the county to spend $20.1 million more on law enforcement in 2005-2006.
The Sheriff's Office request of $127.78 million represents an 18.7 percent increase over the 2004-2005 budget the Lee County Commission approved last year.
To taxpayers, the increase might seem large, but the county is dealing with massive growth, necessitating the types of funding increases the agency has seen in recent years, Scott said.
In the 2001-2002's budget request, the Sheriff's Office asked for $72.3 million. Increases have been seen annually since. Last year, former sheriff Rod Shoap requested a 14.9 percent increase that went toward new employees, cost of living raises and new vehicles.
The Collier County Sheriff Office's budget saw a 17.6 percent increase earlier this year.
More than $7.2 million of the proposed budget increase would go toward new employees. Personnel costs make up 75 percent of the budget overall, a figure that takes into account a 2.5 percent cost of living raise and a 4 percent merit raise for employees.
Those increases are the same as proposed for Lee County government workers, according to the Sheriff's Office.
If approved by commissioners in September, Scott's budget would add 135 new positions. Among them would be 44 patrol deputies, 17 detectives, five gang agents and six traffic deputies, three of whom would be charged with dealing with aggressive drivers.
Since taking office just before the first of the year, Scott has put a public focus on making the agency more efficient, reducing supervisory positions and taking to wearing a uniform and making arrests himself.
Still, he said, certain increases are inevitable due to growth.
Twenty two of the new positions would be for court security, something Scott identified as a priority after this year's shootings at an Atlanta area courthouse where a man shot a judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy.
The new positions would nearly double the number of deputies working in the court system. The Sheriff's Office provides deputies at the Fort Myers county courthouse and at a Cape Coral court facility.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Ileana LiMarzi said there are 25 deputies designated to courts now, along with 13 civilian bailiffs and two clerks on the agency's payroll.
Scott called the current situation "dismal," adding that a comparison between security staffing level elsewhere and at the Lee County courthouse showed the Sheriff's Office was not measuring up. A December evacuation at the county courthouse during a fire alarm went particularly poorly, he said.
"We're not in very good shape," he said. "We're responsible for more than the safety of the judges. We're responsible for the entire facility."
Little of the proposed budget increase comes from capital expenditures, which make up $6 million of the request. The bulk of that, $5.2 million, would go toward vehicles, equipment, laptops, radios and other fleet and technical services expenses.
If cuts have to be made in the budget, Scott said, he would look first to civilian positions. He said he also is open to suggestions from the public and the commission on how to reduce the budget.
Upcoming meetings between Sheriff's Office staff and the commission will hammer out details of the request, which will be up for the commission's final consideration in September.
"I can tell you it's going to be nonadversarial," Scott said.
Sheriff's Office budget director Bill Bergquist said sheriff's officials have been meeting with commissioners and county officials for some time to talk about the agency's needs in 2005-2006's.
The talks lay the groundwork for a discussion of the budget that will be had in a workshop that should occur within a few weeks and at public hearings on the budget this summer, he said.
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Sheriff seeks $20M more for law enforcement manpower
By ANNE MARIE APOLLO, amapollo@naplesnews.com
Thursday, June 2, 2005
With an eye on increasing investigative manpower and the number of deputies in courts and on patrol, Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott submitted a budget Wednesday asking the county to spend $20.1 million more on law enforcement in 2005-2006.
The Sheriff's Office request of $127.78 million represents an 18.7 percent increase over the 2004-2005 budget the Lee County Commission approved last year.
To taxpayers, the increase might seem large, but the county is dealing with massive growth, necessitating the types of funding increases the agency has seen in recent years, Scott said.
In the 2001-2002's budget request, the Sheriff's Office asked for $72.3 million. Increases have been seen annually since. Last year, former sheriff Rod Shoap requested a 14.9 percent increase that went toward new employees, cost of living raises and new vehicles.
The Collier County Sheriff Office's budget saw a 17.6 percent increase earlier this year.
More than $7.2 million of the proposed budget increase would go toward new employees. Personnel costs make up 75 percent of the budget overall, a figure that takes into account a 2.5 percent cost of living raise and a 4 percent merit raise for employees.
Those increases are the same as proposed for Lee County government workers, according to the Sheriff's Office.
If approved by commissioners in September, Scott's budget would add 135 new positions. Among them would be 44 patrol deputies, 17 detectives, five gang agents and six traffic deputies, three of whom would be charged with dealing with aggressive drivers.
Since taking office just before the first of the year, Scott has put a public focus on making the agency more efficient, reducing supervisory positions and taking to wearing a uniform and making arrests himself.
Still, he said, certain increases are inevitable due to growth.
Twenty two of the new positions would be for court security, something Scott identified as a priority after this year's shootings at an Atlanta area courthouse where a man shot a judge, a court reporter and a sheriff's deputy.
The new positions would nearly double the number of deputies working in the court system. The Sheriff's Office provides deputies at the Fort Myers county courthouse and at a Cape Coral court facility.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Ileana LiMarzi said there are 25 deputies designated to courts now, along with 13 civilian bailiffs and two clerks on the agency's payroll.
Scott called the current situation "dismal," adding that a comparison between security staffing level elsewhere and at the Lee County courthouse showed the Sheriff's Office was not measuring up. A December evacuation at the county courthouse during a fire alarm went particularly poorly, he said.
"We're not in very good shape," he said. "We're responsible for more than the safety of the judges. We're responsible for the entire facility."
Little of the proposed budget increase comes from capital expenditures, which make up $6 million of the request. The bulk of that, $5.2 million, would go toward vehicles, equipment, laptops, radios and other fleet and technical services expenses.
If cuts have to be made in the budget, Scott said, he would look first to civilian positions. He said he also is open to suggestions from the public and the commission on how to reduce the budget.
Upcoming meetings between Sheriff's Office staff and the commission will hammer out details of the request, which will be up for the commission's final consideration in September.
"I can tell you it's going to be nonadversarial," Scott said.
Sheriff's Office budget director Bill Bergquist said sheriff's officials have been meeting with commissioners and county officials for some time to talk about the agency's needs in 2005-2006's.
The talks lay the groundwork for a discussion of the budget that will be had in a workshop that should occur within a few weeks and at public hearings on the budget this summer, he said.
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Mike Scott wow what happen to this guy