As a small Broward city began to consider starting its own police department to save money, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony arrived at the city’s budget hearing Wednesday night with a strong message: You’ll regret ending your agreement with BSO.
As West Park, a 2.2-square-mile city south of Hollywood, finds itself embroiled in controversy over a commissioner’s lawsuit against city officials, a new showdown appears to have started with the county sheriff.
Tony, along with about a dozen BSO deputies, went to a West Park budget hearing to urge city commissioners not to end — let alone even consider ending — the city’s contract with the sheriff’s office. West Park doesn’t have its own police department and pays BSO for police services, but commissioners have been irked by increases in cost to the police agency by millions of dollars over the last few years…