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Page 3. <br /> Chief Frye : "Did you get a letter on that too?" <br /> Executive Secretary : "No, he doesn' t want anything to do with the Town. " <br /> Chm. Thomas : "Okay, if he won ' t put it in writing, just forget that, we <br /> are just dealing with this issue . See you have an operational <br /> manual Curtis . Have you done any work on your operational <br /> manual yet Chief Priestly? " <br /> Chief Priestly : " It isn' t completed yet. " <br /> Chief Frye: " Well I could investigate it internally. '! <br /> Chm. Thomas : "How does that work?" <br /> Chief Frye : "Well you see he is internal affairs for his investigation. " <br /> Chm. Thomas : "We know that, .:that is not going to happen. " <br /> Chief Frye : "And I wouldn' t have a junior officer investigate him. " <br /> Chm. Thomas : "Would it be better for both of you to have an outsider investi- <br /> gate this?" <br /> Chief Frye : "I think it would be better. " <br /> Chief Priestly: "I 'm angry, I 'm sorry, I have to say this in all fairness . <br /> If we by putting leg irons on both our Chiefs and both our <br /> forces , with complaints like this , we are going to have a <br /> rash of fires in this Town like you have never had. " <br /> Chm. Thomas : "Expand on that. " <br /> Chief Priestly : "Okay, if we, I am not saying yes or no if this lady. . . " <br /> Chm. Thomas : "We don' t know, we weren 't there, none of us. know. " <br /> Chief Priestly : " I am simply stating this ; that the townspeople in this <br /> Town, and I have seen it happen in both of these men that <br /> are investigating this fire, their unhappiness with being <br /> criticized over the investigation. We simply cannot and <br /> I emphasize cannot, inhibit these men from making a legitimate, <br /> legal investigation of any fire, because if the townspeople <br /> get the idea that they can light fires , that they can , in <br /> . .Mashpee , we are going to have alot of problems . I, myself <br /> have an appointment at 1 : 00 o.`clock this afternoon, to go <br /> up to Mr. O'Connel 's On the Rocks , place up here at the <br /> circle . I look at that building as a potential . Not like <br /> you people. With Ms . Howell , to see whether the alarm for <br /> instance if not .connected. " <br /> Chm. Thomas : " Don' t assume how we think or feel about something. " <br /> Chief Priestly: "My concern is that I don' t want the people of Mashpee to <br /> feel that fires won't be investigated. I want them to know <br /> that if we have a fire it will be investigated no matter <br />