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I believe that the Arizona POST or Police Officers Standards and Training board mentioned in this article is given authority to create that marijuana police force in the phoney baloney MPP or Marijuana Policy Project initiative to legalize marijuana.

I suspect the real purpose of the marijuana police force is to arrest and jail anybody that cuts into the lucrative profits the 85 or so recreational marijuana stores which will get a monopoly from the initiative on growing and selling recreational marijuana.

While this article isn't about marijuana it is about AZ POST.

I suspect folks that wrote the MPP initiative threw the word POST into the initiative, because most people don't know that POST is a government agency for the police.

If they had said in plain English that they wanted to create a marijuana police force it would have turned most people off. So I suspect instead they used a bunch of double talk using the words AZ POST hide the fact that they are creating a marijuana police force.

Source

Director of Arizona police officer standards board fired

Megan Cassidy, The Republic | azcentral.com 5:29 p.m. MST February 11, 2016

Lyle Mann, the director of the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board, was fired by the board Wednesday after a closed-door meeting.

The dismissal will take effect Friday.

AZPOST is the body responsible for certifying and decertifying officers throughout the state. The termination comes two weeks after Yavapai County Sheriff Scott Mascher was appointed as board chairman.

Mascher on Wednesday called a special meeting to discuss Mann’s performance after receiving what he said were “numerous calls from various agency heads citing concerns they had,” according to public documents.

“He stated he felt the Board as a whole needed to be made aware of these concerns, and other internal matters at AZ POST, which he became aware of,” the meeting minutes state.

Board member and Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels called for the motion to terminate, which passed 11-2.

Mann declined to comment.

Attorneys for the board had not returned calls as of Thursday evening.

While the specifics behind the director’s termination remain vague, documents from January’s session hint at growing discord between Mann and various Arizona police agencies.

Mann had championed the addition of a new administrative rule that would require Arizona’s police agencies to report to AZPOST when an officer was convicted of any misdemeanor or felony.

Agencies are already required to report when they’ve terminated an officer, but currently no similar decree exists for crime convictions.

At least six Arizona agencies opposed this rule, including Phoenix police and sheriff’s departments in Maricopa, Navajo, Pima, Graham and Apache counties.

Mann had said the rule was aimed to promote fairness, and said there was no consistency in the way agencies dealt with DUI convictions.

The agency heads argued that the issue should be left to the discretion of each department.

“Every agency has its own culture, and that’s what makes the different agencies unique throughout the state,” said Jerry Sheridan, Maricopa County sheriff's chief deputy, who sat on the board for 12 years.

“This change that Director Mann was proposing completely went against the grain of the history of the AZPOST board in not trying to reach into the agency and overshadow the agency’s discretion,” he said.

Mascher made a motion to pull the rule, which passed 9-2.