Personnel Appeals Board Hearings Starting Back Up

 We just got word that the Personnel Appeals Board Hearings regarding the Sergeant's test from 2019 will finally resume next week after being on hold since last March when COVID meeting restrictions were put into place. We have several dates scheduled and hope to have this matter resolved one way or the other by the end of February. It's unfortunate that this process has gotten dragged out so long but it's been due to factors that are out of anyone's control and we're looking forward to getting some much needed resolution.

No January Meeting

 As expected, there will be no regular monthly meeting for January due to ongoing gathering restrictions.

The Height of Hypocrisy?

So now our esteemed local East Hartford politicians including Democrats Jason Rojas, Henry Genga, Jeff Currey, and John Larson are demanding constant drive by's and checks on their homes by East Hartford Police Officers because they fear for their safety. 

These are the same politicians who routinely tout the idea that Police Officers are violent, racist, dangerous animals who must be defunded and constantly monitored, and who just a few months ago at the State level voted to pass the so called "Accountability Act," that neutered the ability of the Police to do our jobs properly and keep everyone safe. 

Now they're using their political connections to get us terrible Police Officers to act as their private security force for the next week, on the taxpayer's dime of course... Of course they don't mind passing laws that compromise everyone's safety when they can just call on their political friends to send a personal contingent of Officers whenever they feel threatened.

What utter hypocrisy from our so called "Representatives."

EHPOA Begins Labor Contract Negotiations

 Our Contract Committee has officially opened negotiations with the Town for a successor agreement to our current contract that expires on June 30th of this year. As usual there are rules in place that restrict anyone from speaking publicly about the details of the negotiations as they are ongoing so we will not be able to use this site to update our members on the status. Normally we would use our monthly Union meetings to inform our membership about what's going on with the negotiations, but it's unknown at this time when we will be able to resume holding regular monthly meetings. We'll try to put out information as best we can, as always feel free to approach any member of the committee and ask questions. The Committee members this time around are 261, 288, 320, 329, and 348.