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Chief of Police Anthony W. Batts<\/a> wrote a letter to the Long Beach, California mayor and city council recommending approval of a $150,000 one-year contract with Intercept, Inc.<\/a>, the polygraph services company headed by phony Ph.D.<\/a> Edward I. Gelb. The letter, dated 2 May 2006, the same day the council met to consider the item, and just over a week before the Long Beach P.D.<\/a>‘s current arrangement with Intercept was set to expire, seems timed to forestall any serious consideration of alternatives to Intercept. Batts also notes that “Intercept has provided this service to the Police Department for several years under a purchase order.”<\/p>\n

(Download Chief Batts’s Letter to the Long Beach City Council<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chief of Police Anthony W. Batts wrote a letter to the Long Beach, California mayor and city council recommending approval of a $150,000 one-year contract with Intercept, Inc., the polygraph services company headed by phony Ph.D. Edward I. Gelb. The letter, dated 2 May 2006, the same day the council met to consider the item, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-polygraph","anons"],"yoast_head":"\nLong Beach P.D. 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