At the Monday Council meeting the Chief of Police made a short presentation about an additional 287g agreement that Manassas is seeking with ICE. I heard what he was saying but obviously didn’t quite get it all as I thought there was some problem with the MOU being negotiated at the jail. Here’s the story:
Manassas and Prince William voted to allow the Jail (ADC) board to engage ICE in order to negotiate a MOU that would allow the ADC to process criminal aliens for deportation. This MOU is moving ahead unhindered.
What the Chief was talking about was utilizing the ADC MOU in order to train some of our local task force officers so that they too would be ICE trained. The Feds will not allow this. In order to get our local guys trained up, we need our own MOU. I talked to the Chief this morning and this is moving ahead. The task force officers would serve as our own in-house ICE experts available to our entire department.
All in all, sounds like a good idea and I thank the Chief for his proactive attention to this detail.