It's tough to tell who runs Inkster's Police Department these days, as Ann Zaniewski explains in the Free Press:
Inkster’s city manager told police officers in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon that a lieutenant is now in charge of the police department.But just hours later, manager Richard Marsh Jr. stressed to the Free Press that Chief Hilton Napoleon remains the department’s top dog.
Marsh’s e-mail followed an apparently heated meeting he had with the chief Tuesday.
Police Chief Hilton Napoleon
The suburban chief is the brother of Detroit mayoral candidate Benny Napoleon
Marsh tells the paper that after the chief stormed out of a meeting about a new police contract, the city manager put Lt. Jeff Smith in charge until further notice because “I could not take the risk of not having someone here to command the police department."
The city manager planned to tell officers today in a memo that the chief still has his job, according to Zaniewski.
In an earlier Free Press article by Eric D. Lawrence last Sunday, Hilton Napoleon said some Inkster officers are trying to smear him.
“They aren’t qualified to be police officers, some of them. They shouldn’t be wearing the badge, some of them."
