In the last eight months of 2007, Montgomery County's new speed cameras recorded 224 cases in which police vehicles were recorded traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit, according to department records.
Supervisors dismissed 76 of those citations after determining the officers were responding to calls or had valid reasons to break the speed limit.
But that left 148 who didn't have that excuse, and about two-thirds of those citations haven't been paid, said police Lt. Paul Starks.
The police union says officers shouldn't pay because the citations are issued to the owner of a vehicle, in this case the county, and not to the driver."
Try doing that with YOUR boss.
Gee, sir, it wasn't me. Technically, I was just the driver but it was the company car that was doing the speeding.
He'd laugh in your face and rightfully so.
C'mon, we all know that cops speed. They speed because they CAN. Brother officers rarely ticket them for it because its one of the bennies for donning the blue. Or green as is the case with my county's Sheriff Dept. Nice bunch of guys and gals but when the time comes to get to wherever the group lunch has been called, its pedal to the metal.
Back to the Rockville law ticket-scoffers:
"Police Chief Thomas Manger doesn't buy that argument.
"We are not above the law," Manger said. "It is imperative that the police department hold itself to the same standards that we're holding the public to."
Manger said officers who continue to ignore citations might be disciplined."
"MIGHT" be disciplined.
Oh well. There goes any credibility the Chief might have bought himself by trying to come across as honorable.
AND, to make matters worse, other reports have the cops giving the finger to the cameras as they whiz on by.
Really instills a sense of confidence and pride in the hired help, doesn't it.
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