Charles Addington
51:01 - 51:34
"We, we can always do better. It's, it's always— I don't think anyone could ever say it— any public safety program that I've worked with in my many years, that we could always do better in, in what we're doing."
“We, we can always do better. It's, it's always— I don't think anyone could ever say it— any public safety program that I've worked with in my many years, that we could always do better in, in what we're doing.”
- Speaker
- Charles Addington
- Timestamp
- 51:01 – 51:34
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 14, 2026
From the transcript
We, we can always do better. It's, it's always— I don't think anyone could ever say it— any public safety program that I've worked with in my many years, that we could always do better in, in what we're doing. What is the current vacancy rate within both OGIS and the MMU, if you know? It fluctuates. So like we have someone that will, we hire people, then if we get someone that gets promoted, or we have someone goes to a different unit, it fluctuates constantly.
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