Georgia FOP Donates Ballistic Vests to the Cleveland P.D.

Police & Government, Press Release

CLEVELAND, Ga.- The Cleveland Police Chief Jeff Shoemaker and the President of The Georiga Fraternal Order of Police Michael Palmer have issued a press release in regards to the donation of ballistic vests to Cleveland P. D.

Michael Palmer and Chief Shoemaker and some of the Cleveland P. D. while presenting the information on the vest to the City Council.

The Georgia State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has donated seven Ballistic vests and twelve tourniquets to the Cleveland Police Department as was announced yesterday by the organization. This comes as a direct result of the recommendation from Michael Palmer, President of North Georgia Mountains Lodge #112.

The vests will be used by the Cleveland Police Department Officers to add another level of Officer Protection. The quantity awarded was based on the needs as outlined by the Cleveland Police Chief, Jeff Shoemaker, with subsequent approval from the Georgia State Lodge Vest Committee and Chair. This, combined with vests previously purchased by the CPD outfitted the entire law enforcement personnel for the agency.

“Officer safety is a very important issue to all of us in law enforcement, and the ballistic vests have been proven to save lives and reduce injuries,” stated Palmer.

The Georiga State Lodge FOP represents more than 6,700 officers across this state and is part of this nation’s largest law enforcement organization comprising over 364,000 members. The National Fraternal Order of Police is also committed to improving the profession by offering free college for the member, spouses, children, and grandchildren in 29-plus degree programs.

This education benefit includes an associate’s and/or bachelor’s degree. They also provide other benefits to the members to join in a legal defense plan to provide unlimited legal protection for full administrative, civil, and criminal acts. The goal is to provide continuing job protection standards for the member.

“The Cleveland Police Department strives to provide the highest level of protection to our community and the officers that serve our agency. We are honored as an agency to be chosen to receive these vests which will ensure that every officer has a vest that is up to modern standards and made for the individual officer,” says Shoemaker.

To learn more about the Georgia Fraternal Order of Police please visit https://www.georgiafop.org/.

Council Accepts 2022-2023 Worker’s Compensation Insurance

Community

CLEVELAND, Ga.- The Cleveland City Council accepted the 2022-2023 worker’s compensation insurance presented by Tom O’Bryant at their meeting on Dec. 13.

The council also accepted an amendment to the 2020/2021 budget. Chief Pruitt and Shoemaker delivered a monthly report for the fire and police department to the council at the meeting as well.

Tom O’Bryant, the City Administrator, brought the council the 2022-2023 worker’s compensation insurance proposal. His proposal is for the council to remain with Key Risk as they offered the cheapest bid out of the three other companies that bid.

Tom O’Bryant explaining the budget amendment and worker’s compensation insurance to the council.

The bid for the new plan is $89,148. It is a 22.9% increase over the previous years, which was $72,546. The increase was due to the number of claims and the increase in payrolls that have gone into effect.

“We have this amount in our budget we looked at that, we tried to make sure we had enough money in our budget to cover each department and we do,” O’Bryant explained.

The next item that was approved by the council was resolution 2021-25 to amend the 2020-21 budget to include the higher revenues for the hotel\motel tax. The amendment is to increase the revenues to $7,500 and also increase the expenditures to the same amount. This is just to reflect the revenues that were collected over the original budgeted amount.

To view the original budget visit: https://cms6.revize.com/revize/clevelandga/Audits%20and%20budgets/2020.06.08%202020-2021%20budget.pdf.

Fire Chief Ricky Pruitt gave the council an update on the number of calls received in November. There were 99 calls in total 39 in the county and 60 in the city. Of those only four were fire calls, sixty-three were rescue calls.

Police Chief Jeff Shoemaker also gave the council an update on what the police department did in November. There were a total of 2,316 incidents with zero of those being juvenile matters. Shoemaker estimated that the police have covered about 11,000 miles.

“Thanks to the chief of the fire department for all their help, our guys and their guys along with the county sheriff’s department really hit a home run,” committed Shoemaker of the Cleveland Christmas Parade.

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