Camden FOP Votes Down County Offer, Braces for Legal Fight
Camden County Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. called the move a failure of leadership that 'defies logic,' and promised new officer trainees will hit the streets in March.
Rank-and-file members of the Camden City Fraternal Order of Police voted down a proposal from the Camden County Freeholders to join the Camden County Metro Police Division or forfeit their years of service on the job. The offer failed to pass by a measure of 142-62 on Thursday, with 204 of 234 members voting. That final tally means that the police union in the most dangerous city in America will try its luck challenging the labor reorganization in the court system, as an April 30 deadline to dissolve the city force in favor of a countywide Metro Division looms. The deal on the table Thursday would have created a special exception allowing for as much as 100 percent of the current department to be hired by the Metro Division while …
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12:31 am on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
So how do you think contract negotiations will go for every department in Camden County now that this county force is up and running? more ›