Chief:Cops just doing their jobs

By LARRY SHIELDS

Salem News staff writer

SALEM - While performing a standby for a vehicle repossession Wednesday, police said several people protested the incident.

Police were requested by the company which had difficulty tracking down the vehicle and located it during a funeral service at the Arbaugh Pearce Greenisen Funeral Home on East State Street at about 6 p.m. Wednesday.

A service was being held at the time.

Police Chief Robert Floor said officers were requested "to protect the person doing it from harm."

He explained:?"We do that, it is one of our duties. They have the legal right."

Floor said the repossessed vehicle was in the funeral home parking lot and the responding officers said that standing by was "not representative of the police department feelings on the matter."

Apparently some people thought the police were repossessing the vehicle, Floor said and he wanted to correct that impression.

While the circumstances were distasteful, he said, the company had a legal right to do it.

"We were standing by to keep the peace," he said, adding, "we do not repossess vehicles."

Larry Shields can be reached at lshields@alemnews.net

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