Madison County Sheriff Katy McCutcheon recently expressed concerns about starting pay for law enforcement officers and about information provided in a Fredericktown Police Department Facebook post regarding the starting pay for a police officer for the City of Fredericktown.
In a letter she sent to Mayor Kelly Korokis, City Administrator James Settle and the Fredericktown Board of Aldermen, McCutcheon gave a full comparison of city and county law enforcement.
"The information in question is the starting pay for a police officer for the City of Fredericktown which was posted to be $13.50," McCutcheon said. "I question this information simply for the fact that the starting pay for a road deputy for the Madison County Sheriff's Office is $14.45. In the past I have attempted to hire qualified candidates for a starting road deputy position and was told by those qualified candidates that they could make more money per hour with a third less the responsibilities of a deputy sheriff."
McCutcheon said on Jan. 4, she submitted a Sunshine Law request to the City of Fredericktown asking for the hire date, starting hourly wage, and current hourly wage for all current officers for the City of Fredericktown Police Department. She said she did this to help answer her question regarding starting pay of a police officer for budgetary purposes.
"Historically it is known that a municipality’s police department wages are more than the wages of a county sheriff’s office, but I was astonished...
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