Message from Public Safety Director Lawrence Battiste

Public safety is a collaborative service effort of the city’s police and fire departments to provide the optimum value of service to our communities.”

Greetings,

I continue to salute all of the city’s Public Safety Department personnel. Your continuous service, often under some very difficult and challenging situations, is commendable and very much appreciated.

Standing and working together as one unified mechanism of the city’s ever-spinning wheel of service, we have accomplished much and will continue to offer the high quality of service that our citizens and business community have grown accustomed to. We are the epitome of what public safety means to our citizens, families, and the vast number of visitors that frequent our city.

Congratulations respectively, to the Officer of the Month and Civilian Employee of the Month for the Police Department and the Firefighter of the Month. Your contribution to promoting the safety of our city and the efficiency of your respective departments is appreciated.

“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston S. Churchill

Continually, you and your families are in my prayers for safety and blessings as we continue navigating our way through life.

Humbly appreciative to each of you,

Lawrence Battiste, IV