Help!!!! Need assistance for police escort for the Toy Rally!

We need to elect a Florida Ferrari Chat Ambassador. Then we can claim "dignitary".

Now the question I have is: if football teams get police escorts...where does that fall in, the dignitary or the funeral. If it is the Dolphins I guess that would be considered funeral...

 

Fred, how about dividing that cost among the sponsors? I'm in. Mark

 

IMO, if you take the drive from Maralago to the Seminole Hotel by driving on I95 or the Turnpike, you wouldn't need an escort. You are bound to have drivers separated if you drive along A1A. A real escort would involve a "point person" and then stopping traffic along the way at all intersections. Correct? At least on the highway all cars should be able to drive together and in one line.
Just my 2 cents.

Also, President Bush will be in S Florida for 12/8. Maybe we can invite him and have the Secret Service do the escort!

 

Maybe a funeral home would have a good connection? Those motorcycle guys with the orange lights seem to do well. There are usually two of them. Personally, I ave not been on one of the Toy rallys, but don't think I need an escort.
BT

 

You know....you do the work to put it together.
you get the organizations together
you put time and effort
you are responsible for collecting somewhere in the neighborhood of min. $20,000 in toys for a worthy cause
after you get all that done the cops tell you you have to HIRE them????

Let me make that perfectly clear....NO F'N WAY!
Not just that I would not pay a dime, I would make sure that they understand that we will block traffic on A1A for hours and cause them a nightmare just for the f'n fun of it!

 

lets get an escort from the Marines! Semper Fi.
consider doing the drive via I95 or the Turnpike.

 

another good idea: We can call a Funeral Director and ask if we can all follow an empty hearse! we can put the funeral banners on our fenders!

 

Fred you have a PM.

 

uh, I saw this one coming.

 

I'll call my firend!
He's the last one to let you down...........if you know what I mean.

 

I have an 03 crown vic police interceptor...that should do the trick!

 

Bill Howard by any chance?

BT

 

you know....it just do not sit right with me that there is money being paid for cops when the entire rally is about charity and raising money and toys for a good cause and we will "waste" money for cops instead of having $2000 more in toys.

Sorry, screw them. They don't want to give the detail from headquarter then deal with the traffic mess we will cause with 100+ exotics driving down the road.

It completely defeats to purpose of a charitable event.

 

Fred, you are the boss for this, however, I have to agree with Martin. I am sure everyone with continue to offer suggestions.
Don't write the check yet.

 

As Paul stated, I am helping him with trying to get this escort from BSO. However, since I have to work through a chain of command, somewhere along the line someone forgot to mention that it was my intention to obtain volunteers for this. I already have four Deputies who will volunteer their time, and I haven't even put the request out agency wide. The only thing I need is for the command to approve the event for volunteers. Understand that Deputies / Officers will work off duty assignments for extra money but not many would at the expense of a charitable event.

Unfortunately this request has been slow to make its way through the chain of command which was in part due the the homicide of the Deputy on November 7th. I have written to the Sheriff's executive officer to remind him that this will be done on a volunteer basis and that we are only seeking approval for that, and that it will not cost the agency anything or deplete their manpower / staffing.

I will keep you all aprised of the outcome.

 

Thanks Edward!
BT

 

That is awesome. Sounds a lot more like the response I would expect. Then I have higher hopes for the officers than for the upper "management".

 

I'm good for about $100. I do not think it is a necessary for the success of the rally though. So if it were a vote (which it isn't), I'd vote no to the escort. but if you decide to go for it, count me in for $100.
Sorry to not be able to contribute more, but these difficult economic times, etc....

BT

 

fred, how about applying the 500 each from sponsors?