MILNER, Ga. - A Channel 2 Action News exclusive: The mayor of a Georgia city whose entire fulltime police force has resigned confirms he did indeed put a tracker on the police chief's truck.


Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne reports the mayor told him why he did that.

Milner Mayor Craig Timmons says at tonight's special called city council meeting he will have copies of a report he compiled, a report containing allegations about the police chief and his time sheets. The chief says he's done nothing wrong.

Winne asked,  Did you place a tracking device on the police vehicle driven by the Milner police chief? 

 Yes sir, I did,  Timmons said.

Winne also asked,  Did you put a video camera out back of car wash pointed at the building where his office was? 

 Yes, City Hall, yes sir, and with approval from the property owner,  Timmons said.


Timmons says he placed a tracker on the police chief's truck and a surveillance camera on a car wash pointing at city hall where the chief's office is because the mayor's signature goes on the chief's time sheets and he had concerns about them.

 The mayor's position is not just shaking hands and kissing babies,  Timmons said.

But the mayor says he did not expect officers' signatures on a bunch of resignation letters and did not expect the entire full-time Milner police department to resign effective Wednesday, Oct. 28.

The mayor wants to and says he'll be able to keep a police department. In the meantime, the sheriff will patrol.

Milner Police Chief Lamar Bunn says he's done nothing wrong.

He says his job is not confined to a building, a vehicle or the city limits, that he's worked remotely at times on administrative matters, emails, for instance, monitoring the radio and more.

And Bunn says his boss, the city administrator, knows how he works.

 My job doesn't stop when I leave the office,  he said.

Bunn says he's even worked on vacation in Panama City.

Assistant Chief Chris Landers was asked if the chief was conscientious about his timekeeping.

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