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has recently received his promotion. As for all of the changes in personnel without consulting the management staff, it is entirely untrue. I have meetings with the administration staff each morning and we discuss the day to day operations of the police department. If they are not disseminating the information to the officers then I will have to take the matter up with them. If I am not receiving the support of my administration then changes need to be made there as well. 3. The demotion of personnel without notice or reasons. -When Capt. Lunsford resigned from the position as Acting Chief all of the acting positions that he made were rescinded by attrition. These were positions which were created because Lunsford was filling in for the chief. He therefore needed someone to fill in for him and another person to fill in the next vacant position. Some common sense would have revealed this to the officers questioning it. 4. The movement of personnel based on ethnic bias. -This allegation is totally ridiculous. Of the ten people that I moved promoted and so forth, three were Hispanic and seven were White males. One Hispanic was promoted to Acting Lieutenant which gave him a pay increase and two other Hispanics were placed in the Detective Division as trainees. The trainee position has no pay incentive. They are still making a patrol officers salary but doing the job of a detective. Of the seven White officers two were promoted to ID officers which carries a four and one-half percent increase, two were placed into the newly developed S.M.A.R.T. unit (Special Management and Research Training), one was placed into the Special Investigations Unit as a Detective Trainee, one was made a D.A.R.E. Officer (we have been without one for almost a year) and two were placed into the traffic division one of which is a supervisor. I had hoped that the allegations made were not racially motivated however when I hear comments such as the one made in this allegation I can only think that there are racial undertones. 5. The failure to communicate and interact with staff. -As I have said before I have meetings with my administrative staff each and every day. The information from those meetings is to be disseminated to the department by the admin. staff. Obviously it is not, and I will be addressing this issue with them. 6. The abandonment of the chain of command. -Anyone who knows me is well aware of the fact that I insist that the chain of command be followed, however, the chain of command should not be confused with the input from the personnel of this department which is always welcome. I was in the military and considered making it a career at one point. I enjoy working in a structured organization. Any lapse in the chain of command within the Colton Police Department has to be