The Birmingham Police Department is currently hiring for its next academy which is set to begin in February.
Birmingham police Chief Scott Thurmond on Monday announced a $5,000 hiring bonus for new and lateral entry police officers.
The department is budgeted for about 720 officers. Thurmond and city officials have declined to release the number of officers currently on the payroll.“Letting the bad guys and girls know how many, or the shortage that we may have, would …put our officers in danger and also put the public in danger so we don’t want to put that out.”
“They’re going to have to go out and recruit police officers who are already certified and use pay incentives to bring them in because if you just look at the last five years, we haven’t been able to hire and train officers to just replace the ones who are walking out the door or retiring through normal attrition,’’ Treadaway said.
The department has also been looking out of state. Police officials have attended job fairs in Atlanta and have gone to military installations and college campuses as part of their recruiting efforts. In November, the department enacted 12-hour shifts for patrol officers, which Thurmond said has put more officers on the streets. “The precincts are actually fully staffed at this point in time,’’ he said.
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