“Part of disbanding the police department solves that problem,” Mayor James Latimer said after one attendee asked if the officers involved could ever return to policing the city.
The mayor of the small city of Vincent said the town couldn’t legally fire police officers for exchanging racist text messages due to legal issues.The Vincent City Council voted to adopt an ordinance to “temporarily abolish” its police department Thursday night after a two-hour public hearing at the Vincent Middle/High School auditorium.
The small city in Shelby County, with a population just under 2,000, was thrown into turmoil earlier this month whenIn the texts, the officer, who still has not been identified by the city, made a joke involving slavery and pregnant women. In the session, Latimer said that dissolving the police department was “the only way” the city could stop paying the officers, explaining that the officers would then be laid off and not fired for cause. He added the text message issue had uncovered a “flaw” in the personnel policy and the policy would need to be amended.
The dissolution of the police department will become official five days after the ordinance is finalized, which should happen Friday, Latimer said. He said the city plans to contract dedicated police services with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office for the next year at least, with the expectation that it would reestablish its own police force in the future.
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