If they won’t obey the law then they should not be entrusted to enforce the law. They are not above the law. Fire ‘em.
The police union says officers shouldn't pay because the citations are issued to the owner of a vehicle, in this case the county, and not to the driver.
They are obeying the law. They are absolutely correct. The tickets are issued to the owner of the vehicle - the State. They are not issued to the driver. It is the States job to pay these tickets.
Now the State could punish the officers for being caught breaking department policy, but they can not force them to pay the ticket... under the law.
GRIN.
I'll bet if the department digs a little deeper, they would find that most of the rest of the 'speeding' incidents are also job related. The pencil pushers just didn't look that hard or they are excluding a specific type of event that the job requires.
The law says the county is liable. That is the law. If the state wants to change the law, that is one thing, adjusting what the law means, after the fact, to cover this problem, is not law. County, city, state, pays, that should generate some squealing, or a quick attempt at changing the law.
Then again, if they didn’t have those little dollar earning/stealing electronic devices, problem solved.