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Portsmouth commission votes to recommend folding parking-enforcement personnel into police department
Summary
The Crime & Gun Violence Prevention Commission voted by voice to recommend that city council and the city manager transfer parking-enforcement personnel and functions to the police department for training and accountability; the recommendation is advisory and will be submitted in memo form, staff said.
The Portsmouth Crime & Gun Violence Prevention Commission voted on Jan. 5 to recommend that the city transfer limited parking-enforcement functions—and the personnel who perform them—to the police department, saying the change would increase visible uniformed presence in neighborhoods identified in the city's crime-reduction plan.
The chair moved that the commission "recommend to the city council and the city manager that the parking-enforcement functions that are currently being…
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