BATON ROUGE — At its Wednesday meeting, the Metro Council approved the creation of a Police Support Specialist Program that would allow former law enforcement officials to work with the Baton Rouge Police Department.
The program will employ retired officers part-time at $40 an hour to perform administrative duties. At the meeting, Police Chief TJ Morse made it clear that those hired as part of the program would not be hired back as police officers.
“They will have no police authority. They cannot make arrests, they cannot write tickets, anything like that,” Morse said. “They will be helping in administrative functions, even helping detectives look at cold cases, all the kind of realms like that where we’re lacking.”…