Chief; Fenwick Island (DE) Police Department 92k

[RFBfromDE]

The Town has posted the posted the job opening on its website. According to the posting, the Town is offering $92,000 per year to the next chief. Job requirements include 10 years’ experience in law enforcement, including supervisory experience and expertise in “planning and implementing effective traffic-calming control measures for both highways and residential streets,” in addition to grant-writing experience and “exceptional interpersonal skills.”

The deadline for applications is June 5.

The department vet that helped them out a jam no longer wanted.

His loss may be your gain.

Fenwick will not renew Devlin’s contract

Fenwick Island Police Chief John Devlin was informed earlier this month that his contract with the Town will not be renewed.

www.coastalpoint.com

 

[joppaj]

Bad link

 

[joppaj]

Longtime Fenwick police chief's contract not renewed. He says he has 'no indication' why

John Devlin was called to a meeting with Mayor Natalie Madgeburger May 1, he said, where he was handed a letter. notifying him of the decision.

www.delawareonline.com

 

[RFBfromDE]

Bad link

Thanks! Fixed, I hope.

Looks like Coastal Point moved it on me...

 

[traveller]

Must have refused to fix the mayor's parking tickets.

Strange.

 

[joppaj]

92k isn't a lot for a job that has those kinds of responsibilities and gets overflow from Ocean City. Add in the fact that you're likely the head of public safety for something like a hurricane and it's a job where you dream of the winter slow season.

 

[RFBfromDE]

Must have refused to fix the mayor's parking tickets.

Strange.

Maybe just want someone younger and more "sophisticated" while the former Chief goes back to the beat.

I could live in Selbyville, DE on that.

 

[traveller]

92k isn't a lot for a job that has those kinds of responsibilities and gets overflow from Ocean City. Add in the fact that you're likely the head of public safety for something like a hurricane and it's a job where you dream of the winter slow season.

An agency with 6 officers. That's a field supervisor position.

 

[joppaj]

An agency with 6 officers. That's a field supervisor position.

I keep looking at that wondering if they have six year round or do they hire extra help for the summer? If six is all you have that sounds like a nightmare for stuff like July 4. The fact that they specifically talk about traffic control tells me that people are using the town for a drag strip. Hopefully Delaware State Police help out.

 

[traveller]

Maybe just want someone younger and more "sophisticated" while the former Chief goes back to the beat.

The omerta from the town yokels is telling. They really really wanted to fire him for cause but the town attorney told them out of doing that and to go with a nonrenewal instead.

Maybe he didn't calm enough traffic (and with 'calming traffic' we mean 'write enough tickets to out of towners'). I have lived in small towns. In one the 'chief' of the town department got fired because he refused to toss out public drinking tickets written to townies. The council expected him to write tickets to tourists only. Another town the chief got fired when he uncovered that the mayor used the diesel tank for the towns maintenance yard to fill up the trucks for his landscaping business....

Small town councils doing small town things.

 

[Mightydog]

Maybe just want someone younger and more "sophisticated" while the former Chief goes back to the beat.

I could live in Selbyville, DE on that.

New blood like Dewey Beach got? Woof..woof..

 

[Pale Ryder]

92k isn't a lot for a job that has those kinds of responsibilities and gets overflow from Ocean City. Add in the fact that you're likely the head of public safety for something like a hurricane and it's a job where you dream of the winter slow season.

This was my first thought. Even IF I met the requirements, salary would be a No Go for me.

 

[Lmo]

Does it include free ammo and range time?

 

[slsc98]

Probably too late but, I suspect this would’ve cinched his never being let go …

 

[adit]

Fenwick is like a bad HOA. You have a handful of residents that make everyone else miserable.

 

[RFBfromDE]

Out with the old, in with the older!

07/24/2023 | Fenwick Names New Police Chief | News Ocean City MD

FENWICK ISLAND – The Town of Fenwick Island has named its new police chief. On Monday, the Town of Fenwick Island announced that Michael Morrissey has

mdcoastdispatch.com