L.A. city council budget committee weighs funding for LAPD and for recreation, including popular pickleball.
. Chief among those priorities, she hopes to hire hundreds of officers over the next fiscal year to rebuild the city’s shrinking police force.
The LAPD is also looking at tapping about 200 recently retired officers to return for up to 12 months while the LAPD builds up its staff through new, permanent hires. Moore responded that the last time LAPD had a 60-person class was either before the COVID-19 pandemic or just as the pandemic was starting. In 2021, the department graduated“This is ambitious, and … it will require looking at every aspect of the process of hiring, as well as how we attract people,” Moore said about the goals to staff up quickly.
The mayor’s proposed spending plan would increase the fire department’s budget by 6.7% over what was initially approved for the current fiscal year, bringing the department’s total budget to $835.4 million.this month, Bass said more than 80% of incidents the fire department responds to are medical in nature. To address this, she proposed a program that would allow qualified paramedics to start working for the department before they complete their firefighter training.
The department has 75 paramedic vacancies, and that is expected to grow to 136 at its peak vacancy level, the fire chief said. Having more than 100 vacancies becomes “very, very challenging” for the department, she said.
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