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Show Gilmore To Take POST Test Panguitch City Police Chief Howard Gilmore travels to Salt Lake City today where he will appear before a Police Officers Standards of Training (POST) Council review board. Gilmore was suspended from arresting authority to protect Panguitch ' City August 4 by the Panguitch City Council after council members learned that his recer-tification recer-tification deadline had passed. Gilmore traveled to POST earlier in the day August 4 for a second attempt at the waiver exam. POST Assistant Director Carl Berenson stated this week that when Gilmore arrived, POST officials asked him if he had placed his correct date of hire on his application to take the waiver exam. When Gilmore replied that he had not and stated his correct date of hire, the officials refused to administer the exam, noting that POST'S 18 month deadline for recertification had expired. ex-pired. According to Berenson, Gilmore was advised to return to POST on August 13 to appear before the POST Council which would determine whether or not to make an exception and permit him to take the exam. Pangutich City Manager Bruce Fullmer had stated last week that he had sent Gilmore to POST with the understanding that he would return with written verification from POST attesting that everything was in order. According to Berneson no such written verification was given to Gilmore, which Fullmer confirmed. . According to Berenson, Gilmore was originally scheduled to take the exam a second time on August 10, because POST, acting on the date Gilmore had placed on his test application, assumed he still had 13 months before his recertification deadline expired. Fullmer claims that during the two month period since Gilmore failed the first exam on May 4, a series of events prevented Gilmore's retaking the exam. The hiring of a new officer, the fact that the department was limited to only two officers, and vacation time were cited by Fullmer as conu-ibuting factors. Gilmore's three week vacation tcok place the first three weeks in July, with officer John Woodruff taking the fourth week. |