
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152540
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: VICTORIA RATCLIFF STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

KAVANAUGH SAYS DEPUTIES CAN HAVE OLD DUTIES BACK

Roanoke County Administrator Elmer Hodge and Sheriff Mike Kavanaugh have reached an agreement on the job assignments of two deputies who said they had been switched to patrol duties because they supported the change to a county police department.

Hodge said Wednesday that he and the sheriff met Tuesday and "worked out an arrangement that, during the transition, things will operate as they have been."

Kavanaugh agreed not to start any programs or reassign personnel in the law-enforcement side of the Sheriff's Department between now and July 1, when a county police department will take over those duties, Hodge said.

The deputies who filed grievances last month - Lt. Mike Winston and Sgt. Jeff Swortzel - had been assigned with Lt. Leonard Wade to a rotating team of patrol supervisors.

According to the agreement, the team of supervisors will be disbanded, Hodge said. Winston and Wade will return to their administrative duties in the uniformed division.

Swortzel will return to his former duties as a uniformed sergeant until a new police chief is hired.

Hodge agreed that Kavanaugh's chief deputy, Maj. J.E. Robertson, will join the team of officers that meet each week with Assistant County Administrator Don Myers, who is coordinating the transition.

by CNB