No Gas bill for our policeman.

If you are a policeman in the city of Indianapolis should you be worried about the price of gas? You stop at the service station and fill up at taxpayers expense. Granted, some days they will issue tickets or go on a run when there is not any other officer to do so but with gasoline at $4.16, should we be supplying gas for that officer to do personal business or go visit Grandma on the week-end?

Its time for the city to look at having the policeman who gets to take home his or her car to kick in on some of the gas that they use when off duty and not doing police work. I know that some of them goes to court on their days off, which I say OK, we will pay for that gasoline. But to pay for 100% of the gasoline while off duty, its time to make a change.

Last May in Evansville, the city said “The price of gas is no secret and we cannot absorb those costs anymore” Officers with take home vehicles who live within the city will pay $25.00 per two week pay period while those in the county but outside the city limits will pay $35.00 Those officers that live outside of the county will no longer be allowed to have take-home cars.

Also officer will no longer be allowed to have children under the age of 18 in their take home cars unless they are dropping the child off on the way to or from work. Also the mileage of off duty driving would be monitored on the vehicles. http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/may/09/fuel-costs-force-change-epd-take-home-car-policy/

Maybe the city of Indianapolis should look into this same plan here to keep the take home car at a reasonable cost to both the taxpayer and the officers.