Martinkovic: “you never know who is going to walk in”
MONTICELLO – The latest mass murder horror that left 14 dead and
17 wounded in San Bernardino California, is sending very sobering shockwaves
across the country.
Sullivan County’s Commissioner of Public Safety, Richard Martinkovic,
addressing the county legislature’s Public Safety Committee on Thursday,
a day after the massacre, raised an ominous warning.
One of the now-dead suspects in San Bernardino was a county employee.
“He worked for the county and this is county buildings, and they
were having a get together in one part of the building. These are employees
that are working with folks that have disabilities.”
The Sullivan County Government Center, in Monticello, where most key county
offices are located and where the county legislature holds public meetings,
has minimal security. There is a security desk in the main lobby, but
it does not have a direct view of entrances at the ends of the building,
and there is no direct screening of people coming or going.
Martinkovic has raised that point before, but now, he intends to turn
his concerns into action.
“We have in our county as well as every county in the state and
in the City of New York, you never know who’s going to walk in,”
Martinkovic warned. “And, it’s not just this building, but
also our Liberty complex. I mean, after what happened here in California,
it’s like who’s going to stop, now, to go in and decide they
don’t like some of our employees or some of the things that go there.”
Martinkovic said after the first of the year, he will be meeting with
the sheriff and with some key people at the federal level. After that,
he promised the Public Safety Committee that “… we will be
back to this committee.”
