From a reader:
On September 20, 2017 Dr. Humphrey Lee, the President of North West-Shoals Community College decided to get rid of all the Campus Police Personnel and replace them with a private security firm that no one has ever heard of. They have no kind of training; no kind of background checks are done on them. Some of the ones that are hired have been fired from other police agencies for violations of department rules. They have no type of training for dealing with Active Shooters, Domestic calls, or any type of Law enforcement related issues.
Dr. Lee’s reasons behind this was to save the school money and benefits, but what about the safety of our kids, students and faculty members that are on campus? While he continues to let XXXXX run the college and he's just a figure head. It seems no one cares, from the community to the people in Montgomery, that we no longer have a safe campus, and morale really (is low).
He did this by using the “Reduction in Force” policy all the while planning a new campus in Lauderdale County. If there is money to invest in a new campus why can’t he afford to protect the taxpayers on the Colbert Campus? It seems he doesn’t hold our Boys in Blue to a very high regard since he made the statement that the Alabama Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission wasn’t as good as they think they are and that he didn’t need Police officers on his campus.
I hope he never does need police officers on his campus but the idea of them already being there may be why he has never needed them in the first place!
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If all we cared about was a really great straight line, here's where we'd say: But who's going to protect the campus from Poodles?
