VPD - Vicksburg Profit Department?

There has been quite a bit of discussion regarding the VPD's crackdown on speeders and seat belt law violators. Put in your two cents if you like.

At right is a photo of one of the VPD's enforcers - illegally parked and blocking a portion of Crawford Street, motor idling (you're paying for it), awaiting his next victim. Is that Mayor Leyens grinning from that upper floor window of City Hall?

The Vicksburg Housing Authority

Director of the Vicksburg Housing Authority, Jim Stirgis, and Vicksburg Chief of Police Tommy Moffett, are at odds with one another other the arrest of VHA maintenance supervisor Charles Jones for allegedly possessing two point two pounds of cocaine delivered through the mail to the VHA Administrative Office. Moffett blames lack of supervision by Stirgis and the VHA Board of Commissioners for allowing Jones to buy and sell the drugs, and apparently purchase with VHA funds tens of thousands of dollars in merchandise and vehicles for his own use.

In a surprise move February 24, Mayor Laurence Leyens and Aldermen Michael Mayfield appointed four new commissioners to the VHA Board. They replaced three existing "holdover" commissioners and filled one vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Charles Abraham.