Are You Going to the Target Fireworks Tonight? Your Deputies Are
Macomb County will send 40 sheriff's deputies and reserve deputies to help patrol the 54th annual Target fireworks Monday night in Detroit.
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As the 54th annual Target fireworks light up the Detroit skyline tonight, 40 deputies representing the Macomb County Sheriff's Office and another 96 from Oakland County will be helping Detroit officers patrol the streets below.
Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel and Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson have both agreed to send additional law enforcement from their own counties to ensure the annual event is safe for all in attendance, according to a press release.
However, as a condition of this assistance, both county executives have said they fully expect the City of Detroit to reimburse their counties' taxpayers for the full cost of deploying law enforcement personnel.
Macomb County will send 20 deputies and 20 reserve deputies, while Oakland County has agreed to send 52 deputies, 14 mounted deputies, and 30 reserve deputies. Reserve deputies in both counties are unpaid volunteers.
The fireworks display is scheduled to begin at 10:06 p.m. Monday, June 25, over the waterway between Detroit and Windsor.
Should Macomb County send law enforcement to patrol a Detroit event?
petey
11:39 am on Monday, June 25, 2012
who pays if one of these officers is injured?
Jenny Whalen
3:23 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
Hi Petey, I've touched base with Sheriff Tony Wickersham and he said should an officer be injured in the line of duty, while patrolling in Detroit tonight, that cost would come back to Macomb County. His understanding is Detroit is only covering basic patrol costs.
KEN
4:32 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
A city that is ready to go bankrupt and you are going to think that we will get reimbursed and some of the people will actually believe that. Here is the deal government has got to NOT !!! spend money they do not have, the so called officials that we put in charge what a shame!
walden schmidt
9:06 pm on Monday, June 25, 2012
Does St. Clair County reimburse Macomb for the deputies and equipment that were patrolling Gull Island last Friday?