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Command officers win injunction
TPPA to keep 75 officers, part of JAG fed funding
Updated: Friday, 01 May 2009, 10:24 PM EDT
Published : Friday, 01 May 2009, 11:26 AM EDT
TOLEDO, Ohio - The City of Toledo will not be laying off Toledo Police command officers - at least not Friday.
Lucas County Common Pleas Court Judge Frederick McDonald ruled in favor of the Toledo Police Command Officers' Association in their request for an injunction regarding the laying off of 20 command personnel beginning May 1.
Friday morning's order reads, "...the City of Toledo and its agents are restrained from implementing the layoffs of the Toledo Police Command Officers' Association's bargaining unit members who were issued layoff notices on March 13 and April 17. It is further ordered that the defendant City of Toledo pay the costs of this action."
TPCOA claimed in their civil suit, the layoffs went against its contract because the agreement requires a mandatory staffing level. The union said its officers can only be laid off it it goes into arbitration or the city first trims 10% of the entire police force.
City officials said they have cut 10% of the city's police force, making the layoffs legal.
In related developments, the Toledo Police Patrolman's Association will keep 75 officers on the streets.
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner announced Friday morning that the city use federal Justice Assistance Grant funding to halve the number of proposed layoffs. Now only 75 patrolmen will be laid off as of close of business Friday.
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