First, today´s Courier Post offers an editorial on making it easier for studies to happen.
Make it easier for studies to happen
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Late last year, the state Department of Community Affairs formally declined to study a merger between adjoining Cherry Hill and Merchantville, where a group ...
Second, yesterday´s Courier Post mentioned a meeting among local town leaders and County officials on county-wide service for police and fire protection.
Camco leaders discuss possibility of shared police, fire services
Cherry Hill Courier Post
Would Merchantville be better served at the municipal or county level when it comes to police and fire protection?
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This sounds like a gimmick which will cause the richer suburbs to chip in more for police services in Camden City.
The real estate values of each town which participates are taxed based on the total cost of the County police force. The County police force is primarily used in Camden City.
Those who are proponents of the change to a County police force should carefully arrange matters and cost sharing so that such is not the case.
Perhaps a County police force which excludes Camden City.
After Camden laid off around a third of it's police force?
I agree with you, cruiser (mark this date!) - this sounds like a gimmick to get suburbs to pay for police services in Camden City.
It's Cherry Hill or Camden county...
Cruiser is right. And the county level of protection (police per 1000 capita) would not be anywhere near Merchantville's present level which is the highest in the county.
But then, that would be the case in any merger that Merchantville would pursue.
Merchantville will need to reduce the size of its police force regardless of a merger. This deficit spending can't go on for ever. The party's over folks. Our coverage per 1000 residents will soon be on par with Cherry Hill soon anyway. That being said we don't have to merge to cut costs. Give the Chief and Detective cell phones and put them in patrol cars, have them work 12 hour shifts rather than 8. We can reduce their numbers by at least 3 and soon. Otherwise we will be forced to merge when the surplus is gone.
"The sky is falling, the sky is falling"
I'm against any consolidation. We have the best police around! I'm happy to hear that we have more police per resident than any town in the country! This is important. If I ever have a question for the chief I can call him on his cell phone and he can visit for tea. That will never happen with Cherry Hill or Camden County. Wake up people!
To Anon 950
What are you talkin about we wouldnt get that with cherry hill. Come on be realistic our quality of service wouldnt go down any if we merge with cherry hill. There will always be a patrol car driving past your house a few times a day and the fire dept wont take tooooo long to respond to your residence. What were really gonna be stoked about is how long its gonna take an ambulance to get to our homes once they are being dispatched from CHERRY HILL instead of pennsauken. NOTE SARCASM......youll never see a cop unless theres a call and they arent gonna care who is callin or what its about. Your home will be burned to the ground due to the lag in reponse time drivin in from the fire department in cherry hill and god forbid you need immediate medical attention because its gonna take even longer for all of the above to respond to your residence. That merger idea is ridiculous. And those of you saying it wouldnt be any different better get your heads out of your...well you know
OH I FORGOT MY ANTICIPATED RESPONSE FROM THE MERGERMANIACS...
"THESE ARE ALL AREAS THAT A CONCLUSIVE STUDY WOULD COVER...BLAH BLAH BLAH.."
Get over the way things are and open your minds to what works for this community. While everyone agrees that police and fire protection are critical to the community, we can not buy into a scare tactic that something new will not work. The protection of the community will have to change so that it can be sustained and that is a reality. No one can afford to keep things the way they stand, including Merchantville.
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