Indiana

Fixing Frank?s Follies

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

Marion County Public Safety Director Scott Newman has unveiled a plan to clean up IMPD.  Those measures include…

• More intensive supervision of officers in the field
• Tighter accounting and inventory controls of search warrants and seizures of drugs and money
• Bringing back the previous practice of polygraph tests for officers assigned to narcotics enforcement, vice, intelligence and property room
• Creating the position of recruiter in order to ensure the department attracts the best, high quality candidates, including establishing a presence on college campuses
• Establishing a staffed Office of Career Development with the task of guiding officers toward more directed career goals, cultivating management and leadership skills, and providing more consistent evaluations and training
• Requiring performance evaluations on a regular basis

Of course had the people who had been running IMPD before Greg Ballard took over had done some of this, maybe these steps would not have been necessary.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).