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Marseilles shifts title within police department · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Marseilles shift's title within police department. Written by Matthias Werner.
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  to you by Everlett. The second in command for the
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  Marseille Police Department, Captain James Buckingham, will now be addressed
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  as Deputy Chief Buckingham. At the Wednesday, June seventeenth meeting
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  of the Marcis City Council, an agreement was made to
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  rename the position of captain to deputy chief. We're just
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  changing the wording in the current ordinance because what we
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  currently have isn't recognized by the state anymore. Commissioner of
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  Public Health and Safety Melissa Small said that way that
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  follows in line with all of the proper protocol that's
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  established by the state. In addition to the semantic reason
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  for this change, Bobby Kaminski pointed out another reason that
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  fingers crossed will never come to pass. This was brought
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  to our attention for redundancy purposes. Kaminsky, the Commissioner of
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  Accounts and Finance, said, if our chief was incapacitated and
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  we didn't have time to appoint somebody, this is the
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  automatic fill in. Nobody could challenge the city on not
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  having the right police chief involved, So this is protecting
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  the city. Kaminsky, who was acting mayor at this meeting
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  and Mayor Jim Hollenbeck's absence, emphasized that this is not
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  a significant change. This is the first time I've heard
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  of this since I've been on the board. But as
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  long as we're making progress to fix some things, I'm
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  very happy, he said. I think this is pretty much
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  a no brainer for us. There's no additional pay when
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  it comes to this. It simply replaces the title