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By: Caleb Califano
NORMAN, Oklahoma -
The budget battle is finally over in Norman after city councilors voted not to cut $500,000 from the police department s budget.
The city council found a way to fully fund the police department along with a mobile crisis unit pilot program. It would be the first of its kind in Oklahoma.
Instead of taking $500,000 out of the police department’s budget, councilors discovered a double dip in the fire department funding totaling approximately $1 million.
They were able to redirect $630,000 of that money to the pilot program via the general fund.
Norman councilwoman Brandi Studley introduced the original proposal to cut money from the police budget, which police said would have led to staffing cuts.
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Mar. 6—An officer who has been with the Norman Police Department for nearly two decades received a much-desired birthday gift last month. Maj. Chad Vincent, 44, who celebrated his birthday last month, was promoted at the end of February from captain of the uniformed support division to head of the entire operations bureau. His new duties will include being over all patrol divisions, the .