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Council approves off‑duty Montgomery County officers for village patrols; Lt. Ari Elkin named coordinator
Summary
The Friendship Heights Village Council voted 5–2 to hire off‑duty Montgomery County police officers under village employment contracts, to provide roughly 40 hours a week of coverage, with Lieutenant Ari Elkin serving as coordinator at $800 per month and officers starting at $80 per hour.
The Friendship Heights Village Council voted to hire off‑duty Montgomery County police officers under village employment contracts to augment traffic enforcement, pedestrian safety and general public‑safety coverage.
Francine Klein, chair of the public safety committee, moved the adoption of a program that would hire Lieutenant Ari Elkin of the Montgomery County Police Department as an off‑duty employment coordinator for the village and multiple off‑duty uniformed officers on a part‑time basis. Klein described program elements during the council meeting and moved “to adopt the program just described, including to hire under employment contracts Lieutenant Elkin as the coordinator for $800 per month, and multiple part time police officers to accomplish 40 hours per week of coverage on average at a rate of $80 per hour.”
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