Timmons says he placed a tracker on the police chief’s truck and a surveillance camera on a car wash pointing at city hall where the chief’s office is because the mayor’s signature goes on the chief’s time sheets and he had concerns about them.

“The mayor’s position is not just shaking hands and kissing babies,” Timmons said.

But the mayor says he did not expect officers’ signatures on a bunch of resignation letters and did not expect the entire full-time Milner police department to resign effective Wednesday, Oct. 28.

The mayor wants to and says he’ll be able to keep a police department. In the meantime, the sheriff will patrol.

Milner Police Chief Lamar Bunn says he’s done nothing wrong.

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      Police unions are the only unions that shouldn’t be allowed to exist. Police are enforcers for the ruling class, not labor.

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        Imo public servants should not be unionized for they are already in a larger union; the government

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      I dunno. The Teamsters are not to be trifled with, though they don’t have the juice they used to have.