Do we even matter?
In East Haven, Connecticut, even though the Town Council decided last week to table a vote on whether to bond $1.2 million for a new civilian dispatch center until next month, some members are steamed to have learned that equipment has already arrived and training has already begun. “The question is, I don’t know where they got the approval and I don’t know where they got the money,” District 4 Democratic Town Councilor Joe Badamo said earlier this week. “This was supposed to be decided on at our August meeting.”
Patrolman Bob Nappe, president of the police officers union, also voiced his displeasure this week in a press release, questioning how the town’s hiring of six civilian dispatchers will put more officers on the road. East Haven had been the only town in New Haven County to use police officers to man emergency phone calls.
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