Oak Hill Dissolves City Police Force

[Ares]

OAK HILL, Fla. -- The city of Oak Hill in Volusia County has dissolved its police force.

City leaders were set to discuss the Oak Hill Police Department's status Friday following a number of issues, including pot plants found on Mayor Mary Lee Cook's property, which she said she believes were placed by someone from the police staff.

However, instead of a discussion, the commissioners voted 3-2 Monday night to dissolve the force.

Police Chief Diane Young and her six sworn officers were asked to turn in their guns and badges.

City officials said the county has shifted some resources to cover Oak Hill immediately in terms of responding to law enforcement calls.

In the past, city leaders said, there have been several proposed contracts for the Volusia County Sheriff's Office to take over. So, assuming that the city wants to contract with the sheriff's department, that will have to be put in place.

http://www.wesh.com/news/28733774/detail.html#ixzz1Tt7QH2dG

[Dogman]

Oak Hill cops on Florida Department of Law Enforcement's radar


Posted Mon, 2011-07-25 23:04
By HENRY FREDERICK (http://nsbnews.net/USERS/HENRY-FREDERICK)


OAK HILL COPS: COCAINE, CORRUPTION AND CHAOS



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NSBNews.net file photo of Oak Hill Police Chief Diane Young

OAK HILL -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement acknowledged for the first time that it has the Oak Hill Police Department on its investigative radar.
"We've received some information as it relates to the police department and we're looking into it," FDLE spokeswoman Heather Smith told NSBNews.net.

Smith declined to get into specifics except to say things are in the preliminary stages that "may or may not be criminal" in the small police force led by embattled Police Chief Diane Young, whose reinstatement of Sgt. Manuel Perez a week ago today after has been met with skepticism from some city officials and residents alike.

Perez was brought back after a three-month-plus paid suspension by Young who cleared him of criminal charges of stealing gas from the city pump and of improperly using the department's driver's license computer system to look up names that had no bearing on his law enforcement duties.

http://nsbnews.net/content/406787-oak-hill-cops-florida-department-law-enforcements-radar

[Ponce]

They have the facility to make extra cash by using the system where we have no choice but to pay.........here in my town the Sheriff was under investigation by the FBI for drugs, for having a million dollars in a Bahama bank account and for having a multi million car collection.........this was ten years ago, the Sheriff quit but still lives at the same ranch and still has his car collection.

[Santa]

Sounds like some big boys at the state level weren't getting their cut of the Mary Jane market in Oak Hill.

[mick silver]

you cannot have the same gang investigation each other . it just more of the same