The dangers of being a code enforcement officer
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- April
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I’ve received a couple of interesting responses to my follow-up story on the code enforcement officer who was stabbed last week in Clarkstown. (You can read the story at Lohud.com by clicking here). I’ve learned that in Nassau County, all of the code enforcement officers are sworn in as peace officers. Some feel the job really does come with a lot of serious hazards, despite what Clarkstown officials have said. There may not have been any major issues in Clarkstown in recent history, but the comments I’ve received indicate there are code enforcement officers in Rockland County that would like to see more protections in place.
I only had so much time to write the follow-up story but I really am curious about the dangers code enforcement officers face. The president of the American Association of Code Enforcement did not have any statistics on code enforcement. Does anyone have an anecdote to share about something that happened to a code enforcement officer you know?
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on Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 at 7:25 pm by Amy Padnani. 
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you should call and get a reply from all code officers in rockland this is a very dangerous job the public has no idea what we have to do in this job we should have peace officer statis the county will only do something when someone dies have one of the officals walk in some of these areas and tell someone they have violations that person might just been having a bad day and you just mad it worse
the next time it may be a gun
Contact the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers (CACEO). They have obtained statitics of code enforcement officers that have been injured in the line of duty. Currently, they are sponsering bills that are working their way through the California Legislature to provide enhanced protections for code enforcement officers in the State of California. The person you can contact is Gary Harris, President of CACEO, at:
Gary Harris (City of Los Angeles)
(213) 847-6000
gharris@caceo.us
He will be able to provide some information that you may need.
The website is http://www.CACEO.us