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The Daily News Of The Virgin Islands
Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas County, Virgin Islands
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Public Safety Commissioner Otis L. Felix proposes a Police Cadet Corps for Virgin Islands high school students to handle administrative duties, relieving patrolmen. The plan, inspired by successful programs in other cities, is on hold pending legislative approval of a new pay plan starting at $500/month for patrolmen and $3,000-$3,300 for cadets.
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A Police Cadet Corps of high school students is being contemplated for the Virgin Islands but being held in abeyance until a new pay plan for the Department of Public Safety is worked out in the Legislature.
The Cadet Corps would enlist students in grades nine through twelve for duties such as communications and desk work that would relieve patrolmen and officers for more active duty.
Public Safety Commissioner Otis L. Felix said earlier this week that the plan is based on a pamphlet on police cadet corps put out by the Public Personnel Association, of which the Virgin Islands Personnel Division is a member.
It would be that division which would screen and recruit the cadets.
Felix said that Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Seattle and Detroit, among other cities, had successfully put such plans into action. He has written those cities and received encouraging replies.
"They gave us the advantages and the disadvantages," he said,
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For the present, however, "we are lying low on the project," he said, "until a new higher pay plan can be worked out, and we hope, approved."
At present a recruit or "rookie" patrolman receives $2,000 a year for a six-month probationary period after which he is moved to $3,000, Felix is known to favor a starting wage of $500 a month, or $6,000 a year, for patrolmen and testified to this effect at a wage plan hearing in the Legislature earlier this year.
He is also known to favor a starting wage of between $3,000 and $3,300 for the Police Cadet Corps.
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Felix said the cadets would wear uniforms, though not the same as policemen, and would have their duties fitted in with school hours.
Candidates would be required to have high scholastic aptitude and grades, he said, and excellent conduct records. He added that on reaching 21, the minimum age for policemen, cadets would be eligible for full-fledged status in the department.
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Public Safety Commissioner Otis L. Felix proposes a Police Cadet Corps for high school students in grades 9-12 to assist with communications and desk work, modeled after programs in Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Seattle, and Detroit. The plan is paused until a new pay scale is approved, with starting wages favored at $6,000/year for patrolmen and $3,000-$3,300 for cadets. Cadets would wear uniforms, work around school hours, and qualify for full police status at age 21.