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| WISCONSIN TOWN SHUTS DOWN ITS POLICE DEPARTMENT DUE TO BUDGET WOES |
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WPR News - Wisconsin town shuts down its police department due to budget woes
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Monday April 16, 2012
by Rich Kremer
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(TOWN OF BROCKWAY) A town in Jackson County has voted to disband its police force.
The Town of Brockway Police Department has closed indefinitely. It consisted of two officers and two squad cars based at the small, brick town hall building attached to the county garage. Town Clerk/Treasurer Jan Dahl says the force outgrew the town's needs, "They ended up being a full service department, when originally that's what the town was going to have was an officer to enforce town ordinances."
Dahl says the growing police budget was at odds with the towns because of increased costs for gas and utilities and cuts from the Madison, "Our state shared revenue was cut last year and meanwhile we're losing state aid and everything keeps going up on the other end."
Dahl says the town will save about $190,000 a year because of the closure. The Jackson County sheriffs' department continues patrolling the area. She says if the economy improves the town board is more than willing to think about bringing back their police department.
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