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| Hoboken PBA President Vince Lombardi |
In my interview with Dawn Zimmer last Thursday July 15th, I had asked her if she had received a copy of this report and she confirmed that her Administration has. She declined further comment stating that she would need to time to review the report and preferred to not comment to the press or the blogs until speaking with Vince Lombardi first.
According to Vince Lombardi, this report is only focused on the rank and file members and was done at around the same point in time as the DLGS report. Vince stated that Hoboken Chief Falco is expected to be releasing his own report soon giving an overview of the entire department and that it would be more reflective of current crime trends and future projections.
Below is Vince Lombardi's press release on behalf of the PBA. The link to the PBA report is below the PBA's press release as well as the State DLGS report for comparison.
Date: July 17, 2010
To: TheHobokenJournal.com / Kurt Gardiner, Editor
Re: Release of Hoboken P.B.A. “Staffing Study of the Hoboken Police Department – An analysis of the review by the Division of Local Government Services – State of New Jersey” (see attached)
On Wednesday, July 14th, the Hoboken PBA presented Mayor Dawn Zimmer our very own professional report analysis and rebuttal to the “NJ State DLGS Police Audit”. The PBA report was prepared by Northeast Labor Consultants Inc., a professional consulting firm. On this same day, at the city council meeting, each member of the City Council was given a copy of our report analysis.
In a cover letter included with our report (see attached), I highly encouraged Mayor Zimmer to disclose our report to the public via the City webpage and provided a CD-R for ease of uploading to the city website.
As of this date, our report has not been uploaded to the city webpage by Mayor Zimmer and I believe that the City will not release our report to the public despite my strong recommendation and approval to do so. However, when the city received the DLGS report it was immediately released. This is not fair to the members of the PBA or the public.
Our report analysis clearly shows the many factual data computation errors, mistakes and omissions in the DLGS “police audit”. Additionally, our report includes recommendations and other informative factual information of which the DLGS didn’t want the city or public to realize.
The PBA is completely comfortable with the total and unrestricted release to the public our own report of analysis and rebuttal and firmly stand by its comprehensive and highly competent content.
The public deserves the real facts regarding the DLGS “police audit” and to best ensure that our report is available to the community, I am releasing it to all cyber-media outlets.
Vince Lombardi
President Hoboken PBA
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Click on the image below to go to Google Docs to download the PBA's version of the report. The report is over 105 MB so it can't be embedded in the standard readers. I had tried several different options to upload it to be readable on this site to no avail.
Hoboken PBA Rank and File Response to the 2010 DLGS Hoboken Police Audit:
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| Click on the image above to download report - download could take a few minutes |
The DLGS Hoboken Police Department Staffing Report released by the State February 2010:
