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Mayor lays off entire police department in Ohio village
RT News | Jan 5, 2016
http://on.rt.com/7119

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A southwestern Ohio village has started 2016 on a low note: It has suddenly learned that it no longer has a police force. An entire department was laid off on January 1 by a new mayor.

“As of 4:00pm today, all Police Officers and Command Staff have been laid off, per Mayor [Terry] Burden,” the Lynchburg Police Department announced on Facebook on Friday.

January 1 was the first day the new mayor of the suburban Cincinnati village was in office, which is home to about 1,500 people.

The Lynchburg Police Department had 14 people in service, most of whom were volunteering. For the past two years, the village relied only on them for law enforcement after the official police was fired due to financial problems. The department reportedly had an annual budget of roughly $60,000, according to local ABC affiliate WCPO.