The officers in the APS Police Force have the same qualifications to carry guns as do the officers in the Albuquerque Police Department, deputies in the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office, and officers in the New Mexico State Police.
The difference is at the organizational level. The APD, BCSO, and the NMSP are organizations that have oversight.
The Albuquerque Public Schools Police Department is not certified, accredited, nor certificated, by anyone except the board and administration of the APS.
They are a Praetorian Guard. If you had some way of protecting them for telling the truth, the rank and file could relate any number of instances where they were told to suppress the truth about administrative misconduct; to help cover it up.
Why do you think Michael Vigil, when he was being arrested for aggravated drunk driving, wanted to call Gil Lovato. Did he expect the head of the praetorian guard to help him escape accountability for his misconduct?
Why else would Beth Everitt ignore the requirements of the NMIPRA, and hide the results of investigations by three separate entities, into allegations of public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the APS Police Department?
It is because proof of corruption and incompetence in the administration of the APS Police Department, is by extension, proof of corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.
It is likely that insuring the APS Police Department to carry guns will be exorbitantly expensive. Organizationally, the leadership of the APS Police Department under criminally negligent oversight is an insurance nightmare.
Would you insure a publicly funded, armed private police force with no effective oversight?
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
it isn't about the rank and file
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I see your point:
Some individual APS employees hold special deputy commissions and maintain peace officer certifications, with the blessing of the state agency that trains officers to maintain certifications in good standing ,as well. These qualifications are part of the job description. APS advertised for certified peace officers and hired some. Some they sent to training at various regional academies. MAny are former APD or BCSD or other agency officers, retired.
But, no law exists, like the ones that exist for University and CNM type places, that authorizes a K-12 school board to create and maintain a body of police officers.
APS Security-Police employs certified officers who are crippled by no NCIC machine direct access. Dispatchers can't put in the things that are stolen, giving criminals too much time to get stolen APS items out of state and hocked. They have no access to an NCIC terminal to run their own peace-officer applicants for lawfully-mandated checks upon successful employment. Or just routine work requiring a Wants check; it endangers the lives of unarmed officers of any kind (uniform, no uniform, police certification, no police certification) when they have to wait so long for a return on someone they are holding but have not yet arrested.
And guns? Its not even contingent upon if they are cops. Security guards carry guns all the time. Its the training and background checking that is important, and having good supervision and procedures. OK , ok, lots of other stuff is involved to, no security system is an island...
And some KEVLAR - can we PLEASE get everyone who wears a uniform or does security duties a Kevlar vest please? I bet lots of worried spouses of both sexes would rest better if that happened. Plus, SO WARM in the winter! And Hellish in the Summer, but whatchagonnado.
You could buy a lot of body armor for the $80,000 they spent on furniture for the board.
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