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Departments often call Penn Highlands Police Academy, asking if any soon-to-be graduates are ready for jobs and offering pay incentives
The move will result in an estimated decrease of officers to about 29,000 by 2025
“We’re not poaching anyone,” Sgt. Clarence Tosh said, “because no one wants to do this job right now.”
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Mayor Eric Adams announced that next year’s city budget will come with “extremely painful” cuts, which are likely to impact the NYPD and FDNY
State law requires that the raises be calculated based on the base salaries, retirement benefits and add-ons of five other departments
The move would give the department chief more discretion to fill, change or leave vacant officer shifts and respond to department needs
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The union claims the city had “ample time” to pay up; the union said they are calculating individual back pay for each of the 8,800 sworn officers
The long processing times were called into question last year when a man was convicted of a 2021 rape weeks after killing a woman in 2022
“If things don’t change, it’s going to be bad for Jefferson County,” Deputy Clint Bowden said
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