MEET & CONFER
The Mesa Police Association successfully negotiated on behalf of Mesa Officers the ability for discipline, transfers and off-duty work to be included in a memorandum of understanding with the city. Next to money, these are the items that have some of the biggest impacts on morale; productivity and quality of one’s career at Mesa PD.
MPA has been working hard to have one voice for the betterment of our Officers. We continue to do so. We are honored to represent Mesa Police Officers and pleased we could get the city to agree.
DEPARTMENT IA INVESTIGATIONS
The MPA informed the Chief the department was not following IA protocol policy and notifying Offficers invovled in IA cases of their status in those cases every 30 days.
The Chief said this will be addressed and all Officers should be notified even if it was simply advising them their status hasn’t changed or if the case is pending for some other reasons.
The Chief was going to institute some sort of audit for these cases to ensure this was done in the future. Officers pending IAs should be being advised your status every 30 days in the future. If this is not happening, notify your MPA rep.
GOOGLE POLICE TOOL
The MPA asked the Chief to allow all Officers the use of Flashplayer on department desktops. If you haven’t already tried out Google street view, this allows you to see most addresses, sometimes well enough to read license plates on vehicles parked in front of residence and pan around with 360 degree viewing of most addresses and business.
This can be an extremely helpful tool for officers doing intel or about to head to an address for contact or follow-up. The Chief agreed to do this, but this may not be extended to portable vehicle laptops due to limited bandwidth.
This is yet another thing MPA got passed to make your job easier, safer and more efficient. Hopefully, you will be able to log on soon and use this very helpful tool.
MPA Officer Assistance Fund
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