Fixing Frank’s Follies
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.
