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Fascinating scheme for Wayward Police Officers they're running.
Of the 50 Sworn Officers 38 of them are CROs (Certified Reserve Officers), meaning they aren't Regular Day to Day Police but rather people who can be called on when asked / needed. Since these people are CRO they're able to be used in other towns / cities / counties when necessary. Big Event in Houston and you suddenly need an extra 30 or so cops? These people are available. Want private security for your mall / apartment building / construction site but need them to be "Certified" for insurance purposes? These folks are available.
the individual officers make money doing that stuff and if they do it long enough without getting into trouble again then they can point to their clean record as a CRO in Coffee City as a reason they should be hired back onto a regular force.
The question I have is what is Chief JohnJay Portillo getting from this? Nobody is going to run a setup like for this nothing, so what's his angle? Oh, the guy has an active warrant for DWI out of Florida too.
Sounds like they used public money to pay the startup costs of a private security firm, and in exchange for that they write a bunch of bogus tickets so the town makes money