PRINCE GEORGE’S CO., Md. – Prince George’s County’s new interim police chief sat down for a one-on-one with FOX 5 this week.
Interim Police Chief George Nader has been on this position for simply over 30 days. In a one-on-one interview, he addressed quite a few points in Prince George’s County—from youth crime, to ICE raids, to bolstering regulation enforcement assets and like different police departments across the nation, which is considered one of his greatest issues is recruitment.
The backstory:
Chief Nader was appointed by Prince George’s New County Government Aisha Braveboy with 32 years of regulation enforcement expertise below his belt.
Nader says he’s coming in with a concentrate on build up the division’s workers and assets.
“Prime precedence goes to be staffing. How can we improve our staffing? Improve our enchantment to folks to use and are available aboard our group?” he stated. “There have been a number of destructive incidents which have occurred with regulation enforcement. I believe we nonetheless haven’t recovered from that as a career. Additionally, what you see, too, is there’s much less curiosity in our youthful of us to return on board jobs like this.”
Nader says as a way to be totally staffed the division wants roughly 330 further officers, with 60 to 80 retiring yearly. They’re continually in a deficit, supplementing that scarcity with officers on additional time.
The division is now trying to widen their social media outreach to diversify the pressure.
“We’ve got a number of bilingual officers,” Nader stated.”We’ve got varied races and genders, however we want to improve our feminine officers, so we would like to encourage younger girls which are on this career to return to our division.”
Dig deeper:
One other huge concern within the county is youth crime. The interim chief says curfews are working- and in addition plans to start out a truancy program as soon as youngsters return to high school.
“What you discover a number of occasions is when youngsters are out and about, and so they’re truant from faculty that would result in them, being the sufferer in a criminal offense that would result in them, being concerned in some form of delinquent act. So merely by selecting these juveniles up and taking them again to high school. That would keep away from that.
FOX 5 additionally requested about ICE raids doubtlessly being carried out within the space.
“We do not implement immigration standing in Prince George’s County. We do not ask our residents what their immigration standing is,’ stated Nader. “We would like them to really feel snug sufficient, and belief us sufficient that they will name us after they want us.”
Once more, Nader says he acknowledges the actual worry within the county about ICE raids and stresses tonight that they won’t be working with ICE, and actually urging residents in Prince Georges County to return ahead in the event that they need assistance.
