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December 18, 2014 12:06 PM
There's a new sheriff in town and he's bringing back a blast from the past
Dave Gong | The Journal Gazette
Allen County Sheriff-Elect David Gladieux will restructure some parts of his department once he takes office next year.
Speaking to the Allen County Council Thursday morning, Gladieux said he intends to bring back the position of deputy chief to command the department's operational and administrative divisions. There would be two deputy chiefs.
"What I'm here in front of you today for, the commanders of each one of those divisions are currently captains on the department," he said. "Years ago we used to have deputy chiefs. I'm interested in bringing back the deputy chiefs, replacing those captains with deputy chief positions."
Gladieux said the reason for the change is "the simple fact they basically run each half of the department and have an awful lot of responsibilities," which have only grown throughout the years.
"They do a lot of things and supervise a lot of people, and I felt it was appropriate to get them up to an appropriate pay scale," he said.
The officers who will be reclassified as deputy chiefs currently hold the equivalent captain positions, so there won't be any staffing changes. Gladieux said he's changing the title and adding some responsibilities to both positions, which he said warranted increasing the pay for those positions.
The two deputy chief positions will each earn an annual salary of $85,000.
The council unanimously approved the sheriff-elect's request.
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Sheriff-elect restores deputy chief positions
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Friday, December 19, 2014 - 12:01 am
When Dave Gladieux becomes Allen County Sheriff Jan. 1, a new command structure will come with him. County Council Thursday approved Gladieux's request to restore the position of deputy chief while eliminating two captain positions. Gladieux said the rank and added pay better reflects the officers' administrative duties. The promotion of two officers will cost about $25,000 annually but will be offset by other savings, including possible reductions in command-level positions through attrition. Gladieux said Charles Edwards will succeed him as chief deputy next year.
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December 17, 2014 3:00 PM
Henry: Trust is a must for the community
Dave Gong The Journal Gazette
The effectiveness of local public safety and law enforcement programs took center stage Wednesday at a round table discussion led by Mayor Tom Henry.
"We must have in this community open communication and trust if we are to move forward as a community," Henry said. "We must have the ability to effectively discuss and debate public safety initiatives and programs – we must have open dialogue."
Councilman Geoff Paddock, D-5th, who participated in Wednesday's round table discussion along with Public Safety Director Rusty York, Police Chief Garry Hamilton, and Sheriff-Elect David Gladieux, as well as about a dozen neighborhood and community leaders, said while some of the meeting centered on community policing and racial issues, more focus was placed on community outreach and dialogue between the public and the police.
"We have a community where we do work together to solve our problems, and we have police officers who are very well trained to direct their efforts," Paddock said. "If there is a situation, we haven't seen the distrust and the problems that other parts of the country are looking at."
From a community policing standpoint, York said, the round table discussions are meant to maintain a healthy dialogue, inform the community about the police department, and to listen and address citizen concerns.
"The leaders of the community have evolved over the last 15 years, so we have to identify those new leaders and engage them," he said. "The dynamic has changed considerably, and you see a very diverse group that we talked to today from our Burmese community, Muslim community, Hispanic, African-American."
The way to avoid the troubles other communities across the country are currently facing, he said, is to make sure lines of communication stay open as communities continue to diversify moving forward.
"When you look around the country to where they're having the most problems right now, it's where there's been no engagement, there has been no dialogue and there are segments of those communities who feel like they're being victimized by police instead of the police being the guardians," York said. "We want to get ahead of that game here in Fort Wayne and address that."
Two things stuck out as main takeaways for Hamilton and the police department – specifically recruiting and diversity on the police force, as well as resident issues regarding complaints against police officers.
"A lot of people say, 'I filed a complaint against a police officer,' but you have to file a complaint in writing, and there's a formal process," he said. "If those complaints are denied, they can appeal it through the Board of Safety. That was information (residents) didn't know."
Hamilton said that to address the issue of recruitment and diversity among police officers, many community members present Wednesday wanted to be better informed when the department is hiring.
"They felt once we open up that process, they wanted us to give them that information so they can share that in their own community, so we may get a broader pool of candidates to apply," he said.
Wednesday's round table is expected to be the first of a series of discussions related to public safety and community outreach to take place over the next several months.
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