by quality617
Now that Pan Am has taken the reins, any chance those poor guys that got let go with no notice might get their jobs back?
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SPACEMONKEY wrote:They will never be called back. I think everyone has realized the RR only needs to have a safety department and claims dept. Maybe at most one manager with rr police powers for anything serious which happens once every ten years. They should get rid of them all, they are the biggest waste of money driving around doing nothing but wasting expensive gas
b&m 1566 wrote:You know... For once I'm kind of siding with Pan Am with this one. I think local law enforcement can handled issues that happen with trains going through there community. I don't see the need for a police force to watch over a freight train. If it is a Hazmat train that needs watching; a call to the state police or sheriff’s office would be sufficient enough I think. They can keep an eye on it as it passes through. However I do feel the railroad should have enough of its own police to keep an eye on the major yards. For passenger trains like that of the MBTA a police department of is own is needed given the fact that there dealing with a large amount of people.I agree with Noel. Yes the railroad pays taxes to the local towns, and feels they should be able to get the town's police to tend to their property since they are contibuting via taxes....this seems to be CSXT's way of looking at it in the Northeast. However, there are some city cops that are clueless about railroad operations. I was once approached by an MBTA cop who looked like he was only 18 years old. He asked me who has authority to be on the right of way......I thought he was asking who controlled it, but he was asking who was allowed.....come on!!! This was a MBTA cop on a MBTA Commuter Line, how ridiculos is that!!!
CSX Conductor wrote:As for the Pan Am/ Guilford laying off their police force, I've heard they shot themselves in the foot because most of the local law enforcement won't step foot on rr property since they are union and aren't going to help do the job of a fellow union cop who was fired in an attempt to save $$. I totally agree with that.I don't know about this - I suppose the police can avoid routine patrol of railroad property if not explicity ordered to patrol by their superiors, but if they are not responding to Pan Am's calls then that would be immediate grounds for suspension, if not outright dismissal (and we know Pan Am is quite knowledgable about bureaucracy). I can't see the police risking their jobs for that.
SPACEMONKEY wrote:They are NOT trained in anything special, word is they have no one to train them anymore because he got let go for allegedly committed an indecent assault on another officer. So they have no one to left to train them in anything. The cities and towns then operate in are more well equipped then the rrpd ever dreamed of being, and they can call in specialist (state, feds, etc) if needed, the RRPD are by law, not allowed on regular police freq. so they can't call direct for anything they need, they ahve to call in to a train dispatcher that in most cases has no idea of police work and what it involves.B&M RR Police are (were) trained at MA State Police Academy, just like any other local or state PD. They have full police powers and full juristiction in any town the RR operates in,and they can access assistance from any local or state PD via radio. They are not "rent a cops", they carry weapons. Similar situations would be MBTA Police, Boston Housing Police, MA Environmental Police, college campus police.