At a 10:00 A.M. ceremony on Tuesday, March 27th, Wicomico County Executive Richard M. Pollitt and Library Director Tom Hehman will turn over the keys to the retired Wicomico County Library Bookmobile to Sheriff Mike Lewis. The transfer will take place at the Sheriff’s Department.
The retired Bookmobile, which logged 120,000 miles in its 15 years of service, will be used as a mobile command post according to a spokesperson from the Sheriff’s Department. The vehicle will be used in a wide variety of on-the-scene law enforcement situations.
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I am pleased to learn that the vehicle is going to get a second life but I thought the Sheriff Department already had two mobile command units that rarely get used as it is. I guess Wic co. is now going to get a new book mobile.
You can't have too many mobile command units when you are covering 400 total square miles of a county (let's see...that would be an area of about 10 miles by 13 miles for each unit....yep, can't have too much coverage) Wonder what conversion of the bookmobile to a "Mobile Command Unit" will cost the county???
Hey, you can't get enough mobile donut shops.
thursday march 27?
You forget to say 1 year ago today????????
wait a minute! doesn't the sheriff's need a "brand new" LADDER mobile command unit, or possibly a WATER mobile command unit??!! why does the sheriff's department have to re-furbish old, worn out, used vehicles when some OTHER departments get to have brand spankin' new vehicles??
Bookmobile and sheriff department. Now there's two terms you don't see together very often.
I guess it's a good sign that I've never seen this vehicle on the road in the past year. I must be livin' right to never go near any situations which call for a Mobile Command Post.
AND, I say there is not much work more important than that which these law enforcers do. If you don't have safety you don't have anything.
Still a severe waste of money. A brand new one was purchased for the use of the county. the chance of having multiple emergencies large enought for two command units...not even the larger counties such as PG/Mont/Balt etc have 2.
Emergency Svcs has a brand new one for the whole county.
The new book mobile has been out doing laps around the county for a long time. Where have you been?
As far as how the Sheriff's department spends money, just remember they also create revenue from confiscated goods and cash at every big drug bust. If you want to pick at wasted money pick about bailing out developers left and right because they made a bad business decision.
Yeah we now have the two, hopefully we will never need them, however if a Katrina sized hurricane skirts the coast we won't have enough of them.
Don't forget what happened at Columbine high school, V-Tech, and the trend for such assaults are on the rise. It could just as easy happen here, it was only two disturbed young men that held off the entire police department while they carried out their carnage.
The Sheriff's Office does not have two command units, never has. The had a very old and out-dated vehicle that was donated. I believe that piece was a 1970-ish model. That was retired when they finished the new command unit (Old Bookmobile). The Emergency Management has a nice one but I do not beleive the Sheriff's Office has use of it at all. So they only have one Command Vehicle.
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