Opinions and concerns of all department employees genuinely matter and affect the department. With this new thread, high command will be taking this into consideration and have a thurl discussion. Please keep in mind changes specifically to the 6 months of service were changed due to the immense amount of unmarked Tahoes. As unmarked do help within the county in certain operations, you must keep in mind it must not be overly used, and that is why it was changed. There are Troopers who don’t know how to control and limit themselves from using unmarked vehicles. Previous announcements have been made under Code and employees failed to abide.
With respect this should have been kept within the department instead of spreading it out the entire FS community. This isn’t such a big deal that needs to involve everyone but just the department employees. High ranking officers and members with 1+ year of service do deserve, in my opinion, the privilege to drive these vehicles. For the public view, we respect all of your opinions and as mentioned they will be evaluated and discussed with the Colonel.
Lieutenant Colonel DevBlue99
Firestone State Patrol
Kamran we know you want the unmarked charger hunny, but I think we’d all love to drive the charger when we reach 1 year of service and those that have been in the department for 1 year should be able to drive something a bit better then a tahoe that looses control every 5 seconds
Considering you aren’t an employee of FSP and you aren’t aware of the very real morale issues that our employees face due to Command and Senior employees not resigning; resulting in nearly zero opportunity for advancement, I’m surprised you’re so quick to jump to that conclusion.
The fact of the matter is this. I’ve been in FSP for coming up to 1 year and 6 months, and I can say that working up from the rank of Trooper I am able to empathize with first-hand experience the level of demoralization that one can get from seeing zero opportunities for advancement.
In order to maintain a department, you need to have members. This isn’t the Department of Homeland Security, this is a starter department in which people join to gain experience. If there’s no incentive to stay, they simply transfer to another starter department that has better opportunity and we lose members.
The entire reason that Code_Law’s administration implemented that incentive was for that reason, and it’s worked. Perhaps it could have been altered or controlled more, sure; because it’s clear that at times we would have many Unmarked Vehicles out. But at the same time, reverting the change completely did nothing productive and has driven further people to leave the Department.
its almost as if firestone lea’s are an over-saturated market with stagnant command members who never leave their positions because they have authority over people
i think the forums now is just a place to shit on people and ideas. if there’s an issue with a department and their policies try and talk to your department head(s) and if it’s a major issue bring in DPS or some other oversight
I agree with FSP command on this. Recently, there’s been an abundance of unmarked vehicles out completely disregarding normal marked patrol vehicles. If you claim unmarked vehicles give you motivation then imo I just don’t know what to say to you
Support, I am extremely disgusted that our Colonel has decided to restrict vehicles to command when he could really just set a limit as to how many unmarked vehicles could be brought out.
I don’t see why there SHOULD be a limit. There’s no such thing as a vehicle being “overly used”, either allow people to use them or don’t allow ANYONE to use them. That’s that. I don’t see a problem in a vehicle being used in large amounts, it actually puts the vehicle into some use.
The command has released a document with questions that have been asked by our employees, and I’ll be referring to the question regarding the vehicle policy, according to Ftlicious, the vehicle was being used by members immediately after they’ve returned to service in the Firestone State Patrol.
And I’ll argue how the years of service should work, it should only be counted how many days a person has been in the department, not based on whenever someone decides to rejoin. It’s essentially saying your years of service are reset when that wasn’t even a thing in the early days. Someone would rejoin and would be able to keep their years of service and there’d be no problem with it.
Trooper, TheIceShifter
Firestone State Patrol
Lieutenant, TheIceShifter
Firestone National Guard
Correctional Officer, TheIceShifter
Department of Corrections
I’m pretty sure he made this change for a reason and the fact is that they were getting abused when given and the overly amount of vehicles were absurd that were out. I don’t have evidence of this but I know others have seen it so to break it into basics, I disagree with the years of service or 6 months of service being able to drive those vehicles as they are heavily overused and were issued to command by itself. The only thing I don’t see that looks right here is the slicktop charger being changed to Sergeant+ which doesn’t match with the in game ranking but I’m pretty sure that this incentive wasn’t ever changed to my knowledge but if so I don’t agree with it being a Sergeant+ and should be put back to Corporal+. Now, I’m not commenting on this post because I’m DHS, this obviously a issue that stands out for those that want to drive those unmarked vehicles but I recommend if this was to be re-added that only one year of service individuals are able to drive the unmarked vehicles but as well have strict punishments that come along with this unmarked vehicle one year of service thing. What I mean is add a punishment that if they do not follow the amount of unmarked vehicles need to be out then they’ll be issued whatever disciplinary action of what you stated for it, otherwise, I support his decision the way it is now.