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Tickets up, warnings down in city
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| By: Melissa Turner, News Editor |
February 09, 2010 |
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When Senatobia Police Chief John Boyd told the city's Board of Aldermen last month that he would step up enforcement on speed limits, he wasn't kidding.
When he handed his report to the board at their February 2 meeting, it showed that tickets were up nearly three-fold: 35 speeding tickets were issued in the city in January, compared with just 13 the month before.
Board members also noted that not a single warning had been issued during that time period.
Mayor Alan Callicott said the new policies were causing talk in town, and he had the phone calls to prove it - from some citizens who were happy, and others who were not so pleased.
Boyd also had a request for the board. He said that the city's radio repeater - the equipment which took the signals from their radios, magnified them, and rebroadcast them to a wider area - was 15 years old and just about to fail.
The repeater had been repaired twice in as many weeks, and Boyd said that getting another right away was an emergency purchase.
State contract price for the radio, he added was just over $7,000.
The city could borrow one of the county's repeater frequencies for the short term, but not on a permanent basis because that would impede their communications.
With a motion by Alderman Penny Frazier and a second by Alderman Mike Putt, the board unanimously approved the emergency purchase. The Senatobia Dental Care Sesquicentennial Scavenger Hunt clue is located at Mimi's on Main.
All board members were present for the meeting.
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©The Democrat 2010
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Feb, 13 2010 |
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No turn signal is the most annoying on these small town streets,especially during peak times.This can be very dangerous also.
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Feb, 09 2010 |
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I have not noticed many cops working. I don't know how they are writing a lot of speeding tickets with empty police cars sitting around town. I wish they would write more tickets for people running red lights and listening to music so loud in their cars that you can hear yourself think. In my opinion, that is more of a problem than speeding in Senatobia.
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