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I want to thank and congratulate FOP President Peter Johnston for his dedicated hard work in bringing closure to the Mayor's delema regarding

unfunded retirees' number 1 pension, to an agreeable contract. I am sure that officer Johnston worked very hard to finalize the agreement.I pray that in the future the new recruits will not receive promisses that cannot be kept by the city government.

However, it is not unusual for members of the Warwick Police Department to do what is beneficial for the citizens of Warwick. It is in fact the

second time in the past 5 years that the police and firefighters have relinquished their pay raise at the Mayor's request, to prevent a tax increase.

I'd just like to correct an insinuation made by Mayor Scott Avedisian, that Pension 1- the oldest pension- is causing the largest problem.With all due respect, I'd like to remind him that most of the retired members in Pension 1 are sickly with large medical bills being paid by medicare or out of pocket, and there are fewer and fewer members with their passing each year. I myself am being treated for bone cancer.I'm sure that there will not be to many pension 1 members around for many more years. The city does not pay any of my medical bills and I was placed automatically into Medicare at age 65 and without supplemental insurance. I donot receive a COLA but do receive a small percentage of what ever payraise the regular officers receive, if they receive one.

I would like the citizens of Warwick to know that they have the finest police department in the state....bar none. The Warwick police officers were

always highly respected by both the state police and federal law enforcement agencies,and still remain so.

Detective Lt. Robert White-( Retired )

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