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MEDICINE PARK – Medicine Park has a new assistant chief of police.
After discussing the matter in a c losed session Feb. 15, the Medicine Park Board of Trustees voted 4-0 to hir e Anthony Lemaitre for the po sition. His sal ary will be $58,240 per y ear.
The trustees set the stage for hiring an assistant police chief in January, when they voted to set the sal ary range for the position at $50,000 to $60,000 a year. The board also approved a pay increase for Police Chief Tom Crawford, boosting his sal ary from $62,000 a y ear to $70,000.
The trustees also gave the department’s reserve off icers a raise, increasing their salary from $15 an hour to $23 per ho ur. The changes were slated to tak e effect with the next pa y period.