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Chief takes leave prior to retirement
Czajkowski said the reason for the leave is family medical issues. Duffy couldn't be reached for comment. Cpt. Norm Morehead is overseeing the 28-member police department in Duffy's absence, Czajkowski said. The board of supervisors was notified of Duffy's paid leave during an executive session Wednesday, Czajkowksi said. Because it's an administrative function, the board did not vote on the matter, or discuss it during the public portion of the meeting, he said. .
Fugitive roundup corrals six
Little said the department has filed for "about a dozen" new escape warrants to replace those that vanished. More new warrants are likely. He said the state has found no single cause of their disappearance. In some cases, it appears warrants were never filed after an escape. Others apparently were purged as law enforcement agencies moved from paper-based systems to computerized networks. More than 80 additional state inmates imprisoned in local jails have escaped over the past 25 years and remain at large. The state Department of Correction has insisted that the responsibility of finding those escapees falls on local sheriffs' offices, but Little said Tuesday that the state is working with several counties to rectify "some individual situations we have identified" in which warrants don't exist.
Leaks fixed, flows begin
We've invested a lot of money in improving the leak performance of the network, and elite performance of the network is equal to Australia's best," Mr Anstis said. "We've asked the community to do a lot of work and hopefully we can demonstrate we've done a lot of work also, and make the system as efficient as we can." Mr Anstis said maintenance of Ballarat's water system was "a program of continual improvement." .
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