Robert Grimm – 11/4/09

This page was last updated on November 4, 2009.

State budget guts training for police; Robert Grimm; Beaver County Times; November 4, 2009.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“As a retired police officer and educator, I was very disheartened to learn that the state government had cut the funding allocated for municipal police training by 75 percent in the recently passed budget.

“This is a giant step backward for a state that is already well behind other states when it comes to providing training for their police officers.

“It also puts a strain on local governments, which will now have to pay the tuition fee to send their officers to the yearly state-mandated in-service training that all police officers must have to remain certified.”

[RWC] Shouldn’t this be the way it works? Why should commonwealth taxpayers pay to train local police officers? Local taxpayers should pay for local services.

“I don’t know what our representatives and senators were thinking when they passed this budget. They must not have been concerned for the safety of residents and property.

“They have made an already difficult job harder.”