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Facebook bankrolls cop near crime-ridden headquarters

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This is a 2014 article. Does anyone know how this worked out?

Do any of you have similar satellite locations funded by businesses?
Facebook bankrolls cop near crime-ridden headquarters
Menlo Park police Chief Robert Jonsen called it a "benchmark in private-public partnerships" that will result in a highly visible patrol in the Belle Haven neighborhood

MENLO PARK, Calif. — With five unanimous thumbs up, officials on Tuesday agreed to let Facebook foot the bill for a full-time sworn police officer to work out of a substation near the social media giant's new campus.

Menlo Park police Chief Robert Jonsen called it a "benchmark in private-public partnerships" that will result in a highly visible patrol in the Belle Haven neighborhood, an area that has a lower socioeconomic status than the rest of the city and a higher crime rate.

"In my 28 years in law enforcement, I have yet to work with a stronger community partner than Facebook," he told the City Council. "They only asked, 'What can we do to make it safer?' "

Facebook would fund the officer for three years, with an option to extend the agreement for another two. Tuesday's vote accepted the company's offer of $200,000 a year but added a stipulation that there may be a need to ask for more should costs rise due to pension issues.

"The concept was for Facebook to carry the freight," said City Manager Alex McIntyre, "and they agreed to raise the cap if necessary."
 
#2 ·
The constabulary I did a cop swap with back in the nineties has corporate sponsors on their panda cars (black and white), I thought my head was going to explode. Robocop popped into my mind.
 
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When I worked at a prior agency we used to enter into a lot of what we called "Reimbursable Services Contracts" where businesses would contract for the service of a dedicated full time officer in high crime areas. They funded not only the officer's salary and benefits, but they also paid for that fraction of time it took a sergeant to supervise the officer, a lieutenant to supervise the sergeant, a captain to supervise the lieutenant, etc. We added positions to the department just to staff the contracts.
 
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If a public service oriented business wanted pay for something like that, I wouldn't have a problem with it as long as they understand the officer is not their personal errand boy. He needs to respond to other incidents in the area as well. If they want personal cops, hire off duty officers.
 
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