POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Pompano Beach commissioners met on Tuesday, with plans to move forward with a new contract with the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Pompano Beach has its own fire rescue department, but commissioners found that starting a law enforcement agency was too expensive.
“It was the cost and the skillset to do it. With BSO, we have specialty crews that can help us with anything -- drugs, prostitution, crime of any kind, helicopters. We have a lot of support through BSO,” Pompano Beach Commissioner Darlene Smith said. “We wouldn’t have that, at least at the beginning, with our own police force.”
With their 4-2 vote on Tuesday evening, city leaders moved to finalize a new three-year contract.
The new contract with BSO will cost $71 million next fiscal year.
Smith said it would take about three years to get a new police force going. Commissioners voted unanimously to accept the new contract with a 5% rate increase cap each year, and a 90-day get-out clause for both sides.
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