California Office of Public Safety

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Most CAUSE / CSLEA employees do not work in departments or agencies with peace officers at the top.  Non-law enforcement personnel have little or no business making law enforcement policy – that includes staffing levels to ensure officer safety, training, and equipment concerns. 

Peace Officers of California (P.O.C.) would like to see a law enforcement liaison at the administration’s level to advise the governor of bargaining unit 22 law enforcement concerns.  That does not mean that there will be a vast re-shuffling of the deck with consolidations of departments, personnel, or any such thing.  All we are asking is that the State establishes a pipeline for the existing lead peace officer in each agency to coordinate efforts for advanced training,  emergency response and public safety issues with an administration level liaison.  It would be good to have a voice in the governor’s office to address our law enforcement concerns – a cop at the top!

 There is a preexisting framework for this model based on each departments / agencies current interaction with POST (Peace Officers Standards Training).

Already, the top peace officer in each agency/department liaises with POST on law enforcement issues; we just need to allow that same person to discuss their agencies law enforcement policies with a newly appointed Governor's Office of Public Safety (OPS or COPS) law enforcement liaison.  That means that it won't cost nearly any money to give us a cabinet level voice in the governor's office - like the CHP. 

We believe it is likely unconstitutional for employees of a constitutional officers, such as the Dept. of Justice or Insurance, to “report” to the governor.  However, we still believe that there is an important role for a liaison to play in coordinate emergency responses with state peace officers.

A minimal change in state management structure, without additional cost, would provide a huge cost/benefit to the state and employees.  Not to mention it allow elected officials to demonstrate their commitment to public safety.  Cops should have another cop looking out for them in the administration and it only makes sense to maximize our utility to the state to provide for emergency response needs.

Whom do you think the Governor or the Legislature is more likely to give a pay increase in tough times –  P.O.C. CAUSE / CSLEA?