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| Wayne County departments start working together to increase jail staff |
| By freep.com- Marlon A. Walker |
| Published: 06/16/2014 |
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Wayne County Sheriff’s Office officials hope a cooperative effort with Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano’s office and the sheriff’s deputies’ union will pay dividends as they seek to fill the department’s 60 jail staff vacancies swiftly. Speeding up the hiring is beneficial to all sides. Officials from the jail have said the hiring process is antiquated and takes a long time for applicants to get through. All agree that the sheriff’s office’s overtime — the majority of which goes toward staffing the jail — is out of hand. “I think what’s happening is there’s a recognition that the current process just isn’t able to keep up,” Undersheriff Daniel Pfannes said recently. “The magnitude of the overtime is something we all agree on. It just makes financial sense to bring in people in that new-hire position as opposed to continuing to fill positions with overtime.” Read More. |
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