Georgia mayor fires entire police department after officers complain about his wife in dispute

The politician of a tiny municipality successful Georgia fired the area's full constabulary section Wednesday aft officers allegedly made "inappropriate comments" astir his woman connected Facebook, leaving the municipality without its ain constabulary force.

Cohutta Mayor Ron Shinnick precocious unopen down the Cohutta Police Department, laying disconnected each 10 employees, according to a study from WDEF.

As of Wednesday morning, a motion was posted connected the department's door, reading, "The PD has been dissolved, and each unit person been terminated."

It is not known whether employees were notified earlier the motion was posted oregon erstwhile officers arrived to enactment that morning.

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The town's full constabulary unit was fired 1 week aft the constabulary officers and politician allegedly solved their problems with 'open dialog and good-faith mediation.' (WZTV / Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

The determination efficaciously dismantled the town’s full instrumentality enforcement operation, raising questions astir leadership, imaginable retaliation and nationalist information successful the astir 1,000-person community.

"They’ll get a paycheck. We’re not that way, and I admit their service, okay? It is clip for a change," Shinnick said erstwhile asked astir the decision.

The quality appears to stem from past month, erstwhile officers filed ceremonial complaints against erstwhile municipality clerk Pat Shinnick, the mayor's wife.

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A neighboring town's constabulary unit volition beryllium stepping successful portion the full Cohutta Police Department was fired. (Getty Images)

Pat Shinnick was fired from her presumption for allegedly creating a "hostile enactment environment." According to the officers' complaints, contempt her firing, she was inactive moving and continued to person entree to idiosyncratic accusation of the town’s 1,000 residents.

Following the complaints, Shinnick, Police Chief Greg Fowler and municipality lawyer Brian Rayburn said during a property league that the concern had been resolved utilizing "open dialog and good-faith mediation."

One week later, the full section was disbanded.

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Following the constabulary department's firing, the municipality has scheduled an exigency gathering connected Friday. (Getty Images)

"This each comes to idiosyncratic vendetta from the mayor, and I wholeheartedly judge that," erstwhile Sgt. Jeremy May told WRCB-TV. "We took a basal for transparency, and successful result, each 1 of them has mislaid their jobs."

While the municipality is presently operating without a constabulary department, the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office said its deputies volition instrumentality implicit instrumentality enforcement duties.

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A municipality gathering is scheduled for Friday, May 8, with topics including reinstating the constabulary section and a petition for Mayor Shinnick’s contiguous resignation.

Shinnick and the town's lawyer did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.