HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975 12-22 Policewoman will be offered patrol job DISPATCH Policewoman will be
offered patrol ob
Maplewood Policewoman Pa- "WE'RE GOING to make the
tricia Ferrazzo will be offered a job available," Miller said. "If
job as a patrol officer as soon as she doesn't want it, she'll have
the city's police civil service to stay where she is."
commission certifies her for the new Funds for the patrol offi-
appointment, City Manager Mi-
cer's position would be obtained
chael Miller said Friday.
Mrs. Ferrazzo, if she accepts by not hiring a community ser-
the post, will receive top patrol vice officer and not making one
ser-
officers' pay, but, Miller said, authorized promotionon,Miller to a"As duty assignments go, she geant's position, said.
has no seniority." Five new patrol officers were
MRS. FERRAZZO had filed a authorized in the 1976 budget,
complaint with the state Human but Miller said he is unable to
Rights Department, alleging that fill any of those positions until
she is paid less than male police funding for the police depart
officers of similar seniority. ment's paramedic program is re-
The job offer from Miller may solved.
mean Mrs. Ferrazzo would be
assigned to patrol duty, he said. If Mrs. Ferrazzo accepts the
Mrs. Ferrazzo has questioned patrol officer's position, her for-
whether she should be assigned mer position would be filled by
to patrol. a clerical employe,he said.