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With Miami-Dade police cadets facing layoffs, a top administrator urges: ‘Fight for them!’ Read mor
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/08/4279132/with-miami-dade-police-cadets.htmlWith Miami-Dade police cadets facing layoffs, a top administrator urges: ‘Fight for them!’
By Douglas Hanks
dhanks@MiamiHerald.com
Miami-Dade has a grim message for its newest police officers: prepare to lose your jobs.
With layoffs looming at the county’s police agency, the class of 47 recruits sworn in as officers this week are officially on the chopping block. Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s budget calls for their positions to be eliminated once the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
The cadets’ iffy employment prospects became a centerpiece of their swearing-in ceremony Thursday when the department’s No. 2 official delivered a fiery speech against the planned cuts and urging the audience to “fight for them.”
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The speech created a media stir Friday following a report in El Nuevo Herald, and captured an increasingly bitter battle over the police department, home to the largest payroll in Miami-Dade government. Gimenez’s budget calls for cutting more than 250 positions from the department unless county unions agree to concessions. The mayor’s spokesman on Friday lashed out at police-union chief John Rivera, accusing him of stone-walling negotiations.
