PEMBROKE PARK, FLA. (WSVN) - The City of Pembroke Park has partnered with the Broward Sheriff’s Office to protect their citizens since to 1980, but the town now wants their own police department.
There will be a four-month gap until that police department is up and running.
“I don’t know what would happen if we had a serious incident in this town on Oct. 2 or Oct. 1, and I don’t want to find out,” said City Attorney Melissa Anderson.
On Sept. 30, the Town of Pembroke Park’s contract with BSO, the agency that protects the city, will expire.
City leaders said the town’s new police department might not be ready until February.
Matt Cowart, the president of the International Union of Police Associations. Some of the deputies who patrol Pembroke Park are members.
He said any period of time without a police department is risky.
“I think it’s a huge safety concern. Absolutely, I think it’s a safety concern,” Cowart said.
The town’s mayor, Geoffrey Jacobs, said BSO should continue to let them go month to month until the department is ready.
“This is about money, money, it’s about how much they can get out of Pembroke Park and not serve our residents in our community,” Jacobs said.
The town’s attorney wants to sign a deal with BSO for one year then immediately terminate it, which would take six months, covering Pembroke Park through February.
“He should have renewed it, and he could have have taken her advice on it,” Cowart said.
But he didn’t.
“I think continuing any contract...
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