Word: valliere
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...Vallier, however, challenged Dowling's management, and even nixed the operations manager's plans to promote three guards to new supervisor positions...
Three months into the job, police officers and security guards say Vallier is making headway...
...already has rankled some officers, such as Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy--the head of VIP protection and, along with Vallier and Police Chief Paul E. Johnson, one of the department's three power centers. Sources say Vallier stripped Murphy this summer of roughly 5,000 compensation hours--extra hours the lieutenant worked without overtime but for which he could later be compensated--that Murphy had built up over the years...
Sources say Vallier and Dowling sparred over alleged inconsistencies in the operations manager's handling of the security unit...
Department sources say hiring new supervisors from among the guards in a deeply divided unit would have created even more turmoil. Vallier says that such a move, in a guard service that has lost money in recent years, doesn't make economic sense...