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Georgians Urged ETo Support New SSafety Program Ait1,id _y’ ATLANTA (GPS) Georgians, both I ! as individuals and as organized j ]lt;* ] groups, have been called on for] SI full cooperation and support of I Georgia’s revamped highway safe- di ty program now in the formative fj( stage under the Vandiver adminis- eg ] tration. I opCommenting on the induction fa | into law enforcement service of Col !ct | William P. Trotter, new director of of the Georgia Department of Pub lie Safety, The Atlanta Constitution r|lt; editorially commended him for im Vc mediately beginning reorganization f*u moves to make the department m more effective and urged public at support of the new program. sh“All Georgians’” the editorial pj j said “will approve his initial state- j0 | merit tthat his purpose is ‘to es- Pr tablish this career service on a xn high and efficient plane.' There ph is no other department more im- du portant to all citizens in protect ion of life and property Ho can wi he expected to devote full time to Ti making the department as effee wi tive as limitations on personnel | sic ,e and equipment will permit.” mCol. Trotter, a LaGrange attor in nev and former state senator, who ve resigned his Georgia House seat an as Troup County representative to dti become safety director, already is j Fc I putting his reorganization plans jdi;n. into effect. His first official act Widwas to realign patrol headquar lerters personnel. These changes were po W. C. (Peck) Dominy, who serv be od as director under the two prev,ch ious state administrations, was re ,wi iduced from colonel to major and | named treasurer of the 22 year ve; old State Patrol. hpE. D. Mink was reduced from Wmajor to captain and shifted from an treasurer to supervisor of the Ac P° cident Reporting Division. jarC. C. Underwood was reduced dufrom major to captain and was Pc transferred from commanding offi co cer of the Uniform Division to per sonnel officer. byR. H. Burson was promoted from VP captain to major and shifted from W1 personnel officer to cammanding tlr officer of the Uniform Division.\V. A. Jones was reduced fromLieutenant colonel to captain and was reassigned from deputy dir Pt ector to officer in charge of special hp services.The post of deputy director was left vacant. Col. Trotter said that following the reorganization there W1 will be an inspection of all per sonnel records “to see that all in ar their positions are qualified.” He’s m not ready, he said, to announce any enforcement policy changes.
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Cumming Forsyth County News
Cumming, Georgia, US
Thu, Mar 26, 1959
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