As a outsider looking in and somewhat interested in your police department, can anyone shed some light on why the latest chief has pulled up the stakes and is planning on bugging out ? Thankyou.

You go Sandman! You've said it quite well! City (or rather "Village") of Milton, wake up and do the right thing this time. There is no one person within this department currently that could do the Chief's position competently! Make sure you go to the outside and put together a decent compensation package! Sandman is correct if you are going to continue to grow, make sure you enable and empower your emergency services groups to do the same both Fire and Police. Enough said!

Illegal, closed-door council meetings, premature announcements, rejection (sounds like co-dependency to me!). More curious and erratic behavior by the "City" of Milton administration regarding the position of chief of police! Last time they spent $10k of taxpayer money to have an "independent" consultant involved in the selection process, inappropriately announced their selection publicly before the (surprise - another local!) person had accepted (ultimately he declined) the position, then finally hired ... (surprise again!) an under-experienced bookmark from within the department, who recently resigned with far insufficient notice for a professional position in regards to a spat about his annual raise percentage and insurance (why didn't you just hire him in the first place and give him the $10k you paid the consultant? -- at least the money would have stayed in the local economy!). Shame on Milton, which more and more deserves the title of "village" rather than "city" for its obviously insular, under-the-table, small-town deal-making and control tactics. You're fooling no one, and in the process making fools of yourselves and your city. Time to grow up, do a real search for qualified candidates, and hire a REAL candidate (likely from outside) who can run a REAL police department. Don't put in another low-key, local lackey to tow the small-town, who's-who enforcement line!. Given some time (a lot) and proof (a bunch), it's possible that area citizens might just begin to take you seriously (notice that I didn't say "again"?...hmmmm?). Oh yeah, and reference another person's comment...Gazette reporters...dig for a story? Zzzzzzzz...

Gazette reporters there is more there than meets the eye! Check into it? Speak with some leaders within the city! Get the real story!

City of Milton, thank god, he turned this down! Now get to work and find a Chief and pay the person some decent money!