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SHREVEPORT, La. A police union makes good on its vow to target elected leaders who help the city go to 12-hour patrol shifts. Louisiana state Rep. Alan Seabaugh is in their crosshairs.
Shreveport Police Officers Association (SPOA) President Michael Carter has sent letters to voters in Seabaugh s District 5, criticizing him. That s after the south Shreveport Republican says he submitted a bill at the request of Police Chief Ben Raymond that would give him the ability to order 12-hour shifts. The bill is expected to pass the state legislature.
Raymond wants that option as he tries to guide the department through a severe officer shortage.
SHREVEPORT, La. Since Shreveport voters rejected a bond proposal in 2019 and the next bond plan fell through the city found a bargain on a couple of used fire trucks to help the department.
The first of two fire trucks retired from Bossier City is in a bay at the Shreveport Fire Department s maintenance facility. The trucks are 2007 and 2008 models. Chief Scott Wolverton says both have about 45,000 miles. The mileage on these trucks, the wear and tear, is really hardly not any at all compared to what our Shreveport trucks have, Wolverton says. Our newest trucks have more miles than this truck has, Wolverton continued, standing beside the truck that s in to get a tune-up and its SFD markings before going into service in Shreveport.