{"id":443,"date":"2023-04-06T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:27:38","slug":"decatur-pd-to-explore-shift-changes-for-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/06\/decatur-pd-to-explore-shift-changes-for-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur PD to explore shift changes for officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Decatur Police Department is moving to a new work system which Chief Kevin Gerber says should benefit all of its officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PD will soon be going to two 12-hour shifts rather than the long-standing three 8-hour shifts. And if that seems like something a bit radical, well, Gerber says the Adams County Sheriff&#8217;s Department has been doing the 12-hour shifts for a number of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In presenting the idea to the Decatur Board of Works and Safety at its recent meeting, Gerber also presented a new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to govern the new setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9E8DBAE4C2AC4A19B2CA45EEF683E9D9.jpg?resize=527%2C480\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9E8DBAE4C2AC4A19B2CA45EEF683E9D9.jpg?w=527&amp;ssl=1 527w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9E8DBAE4C2AC4A19B2CA45EEF683E9D9.jpg?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Decatur Police Chief Kevin Gerber, explaining the PD&#8217;s change to two 12-hour shifts.<br><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once it is reviewed by all officers \u2013 the majority of whom support the new system. Gerber said \u2013 then the change can be put in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City Attorney Anne Razo said going to the 12-hour shifts will bring no changes in salaries or in the number of work hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The department currently has three sergeants \u2013 Mark Cook, Derek Loshe and Lucas Rumschlag \u2013 and city councilman Matt Dyer asked if that meant one would be eliminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerber replied that he has some special duties in mind for the veteran Cook, who will remain a sergeant. Cook has been a full-tie officer with the department since 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system will give officers increased weekends off. \u201cAnd who doesn&#8217;t hold that dear to their heart \u2026 so it will increase good mental health,\u201d Gerber told WZBD.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also pointed out that it will also eliminate a quirk in the current setup which forces officers, once every three months, to work 11 consecutive days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system of three 8-hour shifts has been in place since the late 1970s or early 1980s, Gerber noted. \u201cSo we thought we&#8217;d just shake things up a bit; we&#8217;re just looking to do something different. If it doesn&#8217;t work, then we&#8217;ll try something else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Decatur Police Department is moving to a new work system which Chief Kevin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9E8DBAE4C2AC4A19B2CA45EEF683E9D9.jpg?fit=527%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}