Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has thrown his office’s weight behind a proposal which grants the SPD funds to pay for a staffing incentive plan that could include new and lateral hire bonuses.
As the Seattle City Council prepares to debate separate proposals for how to boost the Seattle Police Department’s flagging deployable officer numbers — reflected in the Seattle community with emergency calls, without immediate risk to life, that average more than 30 minutes to an hour — Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has thrown his office’s weight behind one which grants the SPD funds to pay for a staffing incentive plan that could include new and lateral hire bonuses.
In April, a report from the Seattle Department of Human Resources , compiled at the request of the mayor, cast doubt on the effectiveness of new and lateral hire bonuses as an effective recruitment strategy, saying “SPD did not experience an increase in hiring since implementing a hiring incentive into their process in October 2021.”
“I also believe councilmember Herbold has a proposal and, quite frankly, I don’t see them as necessarily mutually exclusive. I think she also understands that we have to invest in a department, and we have to recruit. I’m very hopeful that, between Councilmember Herbold and Councilmember Nelson, we will work collaboratively.”
“It’s from a report released by the Mayor’s office that we know that traditional hiring bonuses have a ‘limited impact on retention’ and have ‘potential inherent drawback and equity issues for both the employer and employees.’ Councilmember Nelson’s resolution gives SPD the time to develop a staffing incentives program that may or may not end up including traditional hiring bonuses. We won’t know until we get a proposal from the Executive.
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