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Toledo Adult Entertainment: Police chief paints grim picture as 125 officers get pink slips
March 17, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
… Reducing the vice/narcotics bureau and transferring eight of the 18 detectives to field operations.
•Transferring the officer assigned full time to the FBI’s Prostitution Task Force to field operations.
•Transferring the officer assigned full time to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force to field operations.
•Transferring the officer assigned full time to the FBI’s Fugitive Task Force to field operations.
•Eliminating one of the two remaining SWAT teams and transferring the 10 patrol officers back to field operations.
•Eliminating the Police Athletic League sergeant position.
•Eliminating the City Council sergeant-at-arms police officer position and transferring that officer back to field operations.
Celia Williamson, a University of Toledo professor who developed the Lucas County Prostitution Roundtable and the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition, said eliminating the officer assigned to the FBI’s Prostitution Task Force would be a mistake.
See the full article from “Toledo Blade”