Police Jobs & Careers
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Lawmakers are looking at ways to sweeten troopers’ retirement benefits, as well as trying to coax more experienced troopers near retirement to stay
The department is so short staffed that it has temporarily disbanded its traffic division and started rotating one detective per week to work a patrol shift
Truckee Police Department officers provide education, enforcement and community engagement while patrolling on their 21-foot police boat
Officers would receive a bonus and one year’s salary if they sign on for another five years past their retirement eligibility
“You don’t have to be an IT guy to understand cyber security, and it’s critical that you have enough of an understanding to know what questions to ask”
The program aims to recruit citizens to become officers in order to change their communities
Police departments, compelled by a hiring crisis and eager for a more diverse applicant pool, are relaxing traditional grooming standards and getting away from old uniform rules
The police increase will address concerns that the agency has been losing troopers to better paying local police jobs
Because Lt. Debra Clayton was vested in the city’s pension and not the state’s, her family will only receive 60 percent of her annual salary
Officer Samantha Sepulveda, a seven-year veteran of the force, has 119,000 followers on Instagram
The patrol has a historically large class of 55 cadets in training to become troopers in April
Doctors were unable to re-attach it
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