Recently the Troy Police administration is doing everything it can to garner good press and show that their “boys in blue” are a required necessity and not worth looking at for downsizing or outsourcing. While doing this aggressive campaign of getting every good deed and criminal capture plastered all over newspapers especially the regional papers, they may also have helped to accomplish the very thing they are fighting against.

The police department is utilizing its undercover and in some cases combined agency units bringing to light a very interesting point. The police are trying to avoid cuts and / or outsourcing to the Sheriff  or a regionalized new police entity of several Oakland County police departments to save huge budget and legacy dollars. While making these combined arrests, the police are proving that consolidation and regionalization could work. In the past several weeks you have seen joint efforts between Troy, Sterling Heights, Auburn Hills, Royal Oak and others. These moral victories the police are capitalizing on also serve to reinforce that integration of some of these agencies into a regionalized police agency is entirely possible, economically in the best interest of residents and could provide just as complete of police service as the residents have been used to in the past. The aspect that Troy Council is worried about is that they will lose local control and would have a more limited role in the day to day puppeteering of the police department and its inner workings.

A regionalized police agency with or without the integration or utilization of the Sheriff just makes plain financial sense.