Company Hired To Assess Roswell Police Department

ROSWELL, GA — The Roswell City Council has voted to hire a company to conduct a top-down review of its Police Department. The Council voted at its Sept. 24 meeting to sign a contract with the Center for Public Safety Management LLC to perform the task in an amount not to exceed $77,750.

Roswell solicited requests for proposal to conduct the comprehensive assessment of the Police Department and received eight proposals. According to the city, the Center for Public Safety Management was found to be the company best qualified to handle the task.

Bringing on the organization was one of the things the city and Police Chief Rusty Grant pledged to do in the aftermath of current and former officers making headlines due to controversial traffic stops and incidents.

The most infamous incident involved two former officers who used a coin-flipping app to determine whether they would cite or arrest a motorist accused of speeding. Those former cops, Courtney Brown and Kristee Wilson, had their employment terminated by the city after an internal investigation.

Another controversy came to light when reports surfaced that Sgt. Daniel Elzey left a teenager inside a freezing patrol car in an effort to get him to provide the details needed to contact his parents. That teenager was pulled over by officers after he was spotted riding a golf cart along Highway 9 during the overnight hours of Jan. 2. The agency also had to contend with dash cam footage showing a police K-9 in its employment attacking a teenager who was obeying officer's orders.

Along with hiring an outside firm, the city has also created a special website serving as a one-stop-shop where residents can obtain details of the events making the news. You can review that information by clicking here.

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