Not one village member attended a Fort Morgan Police Department’s hour-long “Coffee with a Cop” event on Tuesday morning, Jan. 28.
Administrative Sgt. Steven Brown sipped coffee during Zazzy Cafe during a department’s initial Coffee with a Cop of 2020 Tuesday morning, and he pronounced a miss of village response during events like this could indeed be a good pointer for a department.
“It can be an indicator if there are issues in a community, or if people have issues with a military department. Then we’d have some-more people in here,” Brown pronounced of assemblage during such sessions.
From 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, he sat with FMPD novice Tekiah Dabbs during a dilemma list nearby a opposite during Zazzy Cafe, prepared to answer questions or discuss with any meddlesome internal residents. This grill hosts many of a department’s Coffee with a Cop sessions, and Brown pronounced it’s common for no one to attend or give feedback during a before biweekly coffee hours.
Brown pronounced a dialect is deliberation scaling behind a Coffee with a Cop village sessions given so small people attend any one. He pronounced that in 2019, a dialect hosted some-more than 20 coffee hours and usually had one particular come to make a complaint.
“It’s only kind of a reevaluation of either we need to do so many of them,” Brown said.
He pronounced a coffee emporium and grill events could occur monthly as against to each dual weeks. The subsequent one will be in a finish of February, with a plcae and date to be announced on a department’s Facebook page.
Brown pronounced a biweekly report was something speedy by former Chief of Public Safety Paul Schultz.
Schultz was recently denied a agreement prolongation after announcing his skeleton to retire in a nearby future, and he was immediately private from his position on Jan. 14. Commander Jared Crone is now portion as halt military arch for FMPD.
Brown pronounced a dialect “ramped up” a existent Coffee with a Cop module underneath Schutlz, though it did not hear most disastrous feedback during all during a some-more visit events.
“What we’ve schooled is that a adults of Fort Morgan are happy with a military department,” Brown said. “We don’t have those problems. Our adults are really understanding of a military department.”
Code Enforcement Officer John Simpson attended Tuesday’s Coffee with a Cop for around half an hour during his morning unit shift. He concluded that a miss of disastrous feedback or regard could be a good thing. Simpson was recently named a City of Fort Morgan’s Employee of a Year for 2019 during a city’s Jan all-staff meeting.
Brown pronounced he has not listened from many adults endangered about Schultz’s depart or a turn of use supposing by a dialect recently. He and Simpson pronounced they weren’t astounded by Schultz’s initial proclamation to retire, especially since a arch pronounced he’d hopefully be with a dialect for 3 to 5 years on his hiring.
He pronounced a dialect is functioning routinely in a transition duration with assistance from Crone, who has served as halt arch before.
“I consider a biggest thing is that a daily operations of a dialect will continue to run a same either he is here or not,” Brown said.
Residents can watch a FMPD’s Facebook page for information per a subsequent Coffee with a Cop session.