Lauderhill P.D. hits a new LOW!!

Lauderhill: Hotline allows residents to comment about police
April 1, 2008
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Reprints Post comment Text size: A team of assessors from the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation on Wednesday will operate a hotline letting residents comment about Lauderhill police.

The hotline is part of Lauderhill police's effort to remain an accredited department, showing they are complying with approximately 272 professional law enforcement standards.

The assessors today expect to begin their three-day review of the department's policies, procedures, management and operations.

Anyone interested in commenting about the department can call 954-714-4801 between 1 and 5 p.m.




Telephone comments will be limited to 10 minutes.

Here is the actual link so you can read it yourself:


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... 4013.story

This is not a new low for LHPD. Both CALEA and CFA require some type public input. A call-in session is actually part of every accreditation onsite, both for initial accreditation and reaccreditation. Every ageny in the process, both state and national, has to hold a public comment session and the agency has to make the information on the date, time, and call-in phone number available to the public. Agencies always do a press release and generally post the infromation on their web site. CALEA's input is much more intense because it requires a public hearing in addition to a call-in session. Both processes also allow written comments.

No matter what the format, the public information session is only intended to address the agencies ability to comply with the standards (whether CALEA or CFA). In many cases the public uses the public information session as a ***** session but those comments only impact the agency if they are standards related (an example would be: LHPD or any agency in the accreditation process refused to take or investigate a complaint against an employee). [Don't go beserk over this example - I know how all cops hate complaints and the complaint process] The other comments are logged and have no weight on the Commission's decision to grant accreditation status. The assessment team takes into account the fact that there may be many cop haters or other disgruntled residents in LHill (if they actually read the Sun-Sentinel). Generally these sessions tend to generate far more positive comments than negative ones.

So to repeat, this is not a new low for LHPD. This call-in session is just a part of the process that every agency seeking accredited status has to go through. It is difficult to earn accreditation and accreditation is something that will keep you out of trouble in a civil suit (and God knows there are enough people willing to sue innocent officers who were just doing their jobs when the shi* hit the fan) and ensure that LHPD is keeping up with current law enforcement practices.

There are only two municipal agencies in Broward County that are currently not accredited either through CALEA or CFA and one of those is starting the process. That means that every one of those agencies had either a call-in session, public hearing or both (for CALEA accredited agencies) and made the call-in information available to the public.

Bottom line is LHPD is doing what has to be done to retain accreditation.

[Vic Makey]

The majority of the officers at LHPD do exactly what they are supoose to do ... who cares what the public might say good or bad! We do the right things for the right reasons and that is all that matters! Stay safe my brothers and sisters as this really is not a big deal!

Vic

Thanks for the CALEA class Mike C.

P.S. will the last person fired from the police department please remember to lock the door and turn off the lights on the way out of the building.

If you really are next to be fired,why do you care? Being fired from here is just a big vacation where you go away for about a year and do some other form of work until your lawyer gets your job back along with a big fat pay check.

Listen boys and girls, let them call in comments on us. The assessment team are mostly cops just like us. They know the difference between some baby momma who is mad that you took her coke dealing baby daddy to jail and an actual complaint. I welcome the accreditation process because our agency will be forced to be more professional.

More professional means higher quality officers working around you, supervisors who have to meet certain standards and better public support because the public will see how professional we have become. With all that comes higher pay. So just chill out and do your jobs, we will be fine.

If you really are next to be fired,why do you care? Being fired from here is just a big vacation where you go away for about a year and do some other form of work until your lawyer gets your job back along with a big fat pay check.

Listen boys and girls, let them call in comments on us. The assessment team are mostly cops just like us. They know the difference between some baby momma who is mad that you took her coke dealing baby daddy to jail and an actual complaint. I welcome the accreditation process because our agency will be forced to be more professional.

More professional means higher quality officers working around you, supervisors who have to meet certain standards and better public support because the public will see how professional we have become. With all that comes higher pay. So just chill out and do your jobs, we will be fine.

Thats what i'm talking about! Good post (for once)

This is not a new low for LHPD. Both CALEA and CFA require some type public input. A call-in session is actually part of every accreditation onsite, both for initial accreditation and reaccreditation. Every ageny in the process, both state and national, has to hold a public comment session and the agency has to make the information on the date, time, and call-in phone number available to the public. Agencies always do a press release and generally post the infromation on their web site. CALEA's input is much more intense because it requires a public hearing in addition to a call-in session. Both processes also allow written comments.

No matter what the format, the public information session is only intended to address the agencies ability to comply with the standards (whether CALEA or CFA). In many cases the public uses the public information session as a ***** session but those comments only impact the agency if they are standards related (an example would be: LHPD or any agency in the accreditation process refused to take or investigate a complaint against an employee). [Don't go beserk over this example - I know how all cops hate complaints and the complaint process] The other comments are logged and have no weight on the Commission's decision to grant accreditation status. The assessment team takes into account the fact that there may be many cop haters or other disgruntled residents in LHill (if they actually read the Sun-Sentinel). Generally these sessions tend to generate far more positive comments than negative ones.

So to repeat, this is not a new low for LHPD. This call-in session is just a part of the process that every agency seeking accredited status has to go through. It is difficult to earn accreditation and accreditation is something that will keep you out of trouble in a civil suit (and God knows there are enough people willing to sue innocent officers who were just doing their jobs when the shi* hit the fan) and ensure that LHPD is keeping up with current law enforcement practices.

There are only two municipal agencies in Broward County that are currently not accredited either through CALEA or CFA and one of those is starting the process. That means that every one of those agencies had either a call-in session, public hearing or both (for CALEA accredited agencies) and made the call-in information available to the public.

Bottom line is LHPD is doing what has to be done to retain accreditation.