At Monday’s Mayor and Council Meeting, Council Members Angela Thomas and Tony Malone questioned Police Chief Denise McCain on a shooting that transpired earlier in the month at a Back to School Bash in the parking lot area at Goodsell United Methodist Church on North 6th Avenue as well as a reduction in patrol officers.
Malone followed up a discussion he had with McCain during a council meeting last month on the subject of officers to which the Lanett Police Chief stated that it was due to pay.
Worth noting, that the shooting was isolated and that charges had been brought against the assailant or assailant’s.
Lanett currently has ten officers patrolling the city which is a vast difference from the 27 officers they had just a few years ago.