Good News!

Our Patchogue Village Public Safety Officers are Back in Service!

For a long period of time, Patchogue Village Public Safety, has been operating at a reduced capacity. Normally three officers are assigned to patrol our Village, in each of three shifts.

Our reduced capacity started because of one or two vandals were “Hell Bent,” on destroying our Village Pool. What a wonderful facility! Why would anyone want to destroy it? Some person had a fixation, such that they actually checked the Pool, like a trapper checks his traps! If an Officer was not sitting there, some part of “OUR POOL” would be destroyed!

The solution to our “Pool Vandalism problem” was simple; place a Public Safety Officer at the location of our Pool Every Night. This permanently removed one of three Officers from service. Most of our Code Officers are working, “Part Time.” Our village had to deal with Part Timers who did not want to work too often, and also the expected cancellations because of illness. The combination of all of the above components often left our village with no Officers, to patrol our village.

OK! Do we actually need these Officers? Does any Village need security patrols? The following observation was made by my “Number One Son.” Lets Just look around! It is a well known fact that Villages and Towns that have officers patrolling their streets, are generally more desirable places to live.

I will list a few municipalities that use officers to patrol their areas: Westhampton Dunes, Southampton, Bellport Village, Sag Harbor, Port Jefferson, Old Field, Ocean Beach, Northport, Lloyd Harbor, Etc.
Is there a town in this list that you would consider to be unacceptable, as a place that you could call home? There is an undeniable correlation between quality of life, and the use of some form of security patrol. We have seen what can happen to an unprotected municipality! For the past fourteen years we in Patchogue Village have had a Great quality of life, with the exception of some recent incidents, that might also be correlated with a temporary weakness on our primary line of defense, our Patchogue Village Code Officers.

I have recently been paying close attention to the operation of Public Safety, by monitoring their Radio Transmissions. Call it what you will, but the condition of our village is much too important to leave to the “whims of chance.” All decisions relating to our Village must be made on the basis of verifiable facts!

"And finally the good news."

Our Dept. of Public Safety, is now working with a full complement of Officers! We are now receiving the protection that we deserve. In response to our concerns, as voiced at our last General Meeting, our elected officials, took on the task, to personally schedule the working hours of our Village Officers.

Our thanks to our Patchogue Village Elected Officials, for taking the time to listen to our concerns, and then, actually doing something to correct the situation.



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