Michigan GOP senators call on Whitmer to fire top two officers at MSP

LANSING – Ten Republican senators have known as on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to fireside the Michigan State Police’s prime two officers if they will not resign.

Senate Minority Chief Aric Nesbitt, R-Porter Township, who held a press convention on the Capitol on Oct. 23 to publicize an Oct. 22 letter from senators to Whitmer requesting it, pointed to a wave of current lawsuits over MSP promotion and personnel practices and a current union survey that discovered about 98% of troopers had no confidence in Col. James Grady, the MSP director, and Lt. Col. Aime Brimacombe, the principal deputy director.

“The failed management of those two people continues to undermine public confidence in what needs to be certainly one of our state’s most revered establishments,” stated the Republican senators’ letter to Whitmer, which was launched to the information media.

Whitmer, by means of a spokeswoman, rejected the demand from Republican senators, which follows comparable complaints in Might about Grady and Brimacombe from Republican Home members. She pointed each instances to a discount in violent crime through the management of Grady, who was appointed MSP director by Whitmer in September 2023.

“Colonel Grady has demonstrated steadfast, principled management on the helm of the Michigan State Police,” Whitmer spokeswoman Stacey LaRouche stated in a textual content message.

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Extra: Michigan GOP senators are calling on Governor Whitmer to fireside the highest two officers at MSP

Latest controversies cited by Republican Senators embrace:

Brimacombe, appointed quantity two officer on the MSP by Grady in December 2024, has come beneath fireplace for her involvement in a $999,999 settlement paid to the brother of certainly one of her Fb buddies.

“The Michigan State Police has change into a chaotic, mismanaged group,” Sen. Jim Runestad, R-White Lake, who can be chairman of the Michigan Republican Get together, stated on the Oct. 23 information convention.

“Gov. Whitmer has accomplished completely nothing.”

Grady stated in an Oct. 23 assertion by means of his spokeswoman Shanon Banner, “I stay dedicated to supporting the devoted, hardworking members” of the MSP and “I’m centered on shifting this division ahead whereas persevering with to work with our legislation enforcement companions statewide to sort out crime and enhance visitors security.”

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