The entire police force of a small northern Mexican town has quit after gunmen attacked their headquarters.
Los Ramones Mayor Santos Salinas says nobody was injured.
But he told Reforma newspaper that all 14 members of the force resigned Tuesday, a day after the shooting.
Nobody answered the phones at Salinas' offices.
Los Ramones is in Nuevo Leon, a state torn by fighting between the Gulf and Zetas drug gangs. Police stations in small northeastern Mexican towns are frequently attacked, and several mayors have been assassinated.
Mexico's ill-equipped municipal forces often quit after cartel attacks.
President Felipe Calderon has proposed eliminating Mexico's municipal forces and replacing them with one force per state.
Can you belive we still have some people asking why we need to secure our borders!!??
Showing posts with label Apache Junction Police. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 28, 2010
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Apache Junction Police Employees Ignored Call During BBQ
A call about a drunk driver was ignored because on duty officers were having a BBQ on the police station patio.
Five Apache Junction police employees have been disciplined after a call about a drunken driver was ignored because officers on duty were having a barbecue.
Three police dispatchers and an officer received either written or verbal reprimands and the squad's sergeant was suspended for a day, Chief Jerald Monahan said.
The incident happened May 4 when members of Sgt. Clyde Allison's squad gathered for a barbecue on the police station patio.
According to an internal investigation report, a police dispatcher received a call from a citizen about a possible drunk driver. The dispatcher went and told officer Danny Campano in person instead of following policy and dispatching over the radio.
Campano never responded to the call, instead telling a dispatch supervisor to clear the call as if he had gone to the scene.
Campano and the supervisor received written reprimands, and two dispatchers were given verbal warnings for chatting on the computer about the unanswered call and the number of officers on the patio.
Monahan called the barbecue a "team-building'' exercise gone bad. The sergeant received the most serious discipline because he allowed his entire patrol squad to be off the streets at the same time.
Five Apache Junction police employees have been disciplined after a call about a drunken driver was ignored because officers on duty were having a barbecue.
Three police dispatchers and an officer received either written or verbal reprimands and the squad's sergeant was suspended for a day, Chief Jerald Monahan said.
The incident happened May 4 when members of Sgt. Clyde Allison's squad gathered for a barbecue on the police station patio.
According to an internal investigation report, a police dispatcher received a call from a citizen about a possible drunk driver. The dispatcher went and told officer Danny Campano in person instead of following policy and dispatching over the radio.
Campano never responded to the call, instead telling a dispatch supervisor to clear the call as if he had gone to the scene.
Campano and the supervisor received written reprimands, and two dispatchers were given verbal warnings for chatting on the computer about the unanswered call and the number of officers on the patio.
Monahan called the barbecue a "team-building'' exercise gone bad. The sergeant received the most serious discipline because he allowed his entire patrol squad to be off the streets at the same time.
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