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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Police officers are eligible for retirement after 25 years of service, so if you started right out of college, you'd be under age 50 when you retire. No surprise many start another career. The securty head at a private where our DS used to go was a former cop.

I think it's a great fit for the job -- he knows the county, he knows crime, and he knows the officers.[/quote]

It is a conflict of interest to have someone who is former MCPD to serve in a role in MCPS where he might have to be adversarial or critical of MCPD, or vice versa where MCPD needs to be critical of MCPS, but won't because their former boss will get the blowback if they do.[/quote]

If you think that former cops can't be critical of the department where they used to work, I feel like you don't know a lot of former cops.

Also, I don't really see many scenarios where the MCPS Chief of Security would be criticizing the work of the MCPD -- that's not his role.  His role is to appropriately refer criminal conduct to MCPD, and to supervise the security staff that are MCPS employees (not MCPD employees).  He may have to criticize the MCPS security staff.  But I don't really see why he would be critiquing the MCPD investigation process -- that's for the MCPD Chief, or the County Council, to do.  MCPD staff don't report to him.

One positive thing is that he presumably will not be afraid to refer things to MCPD.  It's also likely a positive that he is pretty familiar already with the specific gang activity in the County and things like how the drug markets operate, so he knows what to look for.  Someone from outside the county would presumably have a learning curve on that.  Also, unlike Florida and South Carolina, Maryland is not an attractive retirement spot for retired law enforcement from other states, so we wouldn't be in a strong position to recruit former LEO from another state.  If they are going to move their family, they are going to a state that doesn't tax their police pension.

I don't know anything about this guy -- he could be awful.  But the mere fact that he was MCPD police chief isn't at all disqualifying from my perspective.  And I've generally been pretty satisfied with MCPD response over the last decade or so.[/quote]

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