Staffing and recruiting are issues felt across a variety of industries, and the law enforcement community is no exception.
“I would guess there’s only a handful of departments who could say they’re fully staffed,” Chief Douglas Stout with the Kokomo Police Department said.
“Whether it’s through delayed response times or because you’re low on manpower. Officers are feeling burned out because they’re running from call to call,” Stout said. Since the beginning of 2020, 13 officers have retired, according to Stout, and by the end of 2024 at least four more officers are expected to retire.“I got hired almost a year ago. My badge number is 439 and we just hired 450. So we’ve hired quite a few and it’s unheard of in this department to have that many people under you without having a year on,” Howard said.
“The ‘why’ is different for everybody but probably the most important thing, most important question a cop can ask him or herself is why do I do this? For me I felt this immense need to do something that mattered,” Tatlock said.Starting in 2020, Kokomo Police dedicated a patrol officer strictly to recruiting. The same year, the department aired a commercial in the South bend and Indianapolis TV markets as a recruitment tool.
IMPD’s 24th recruit class had 614 applicants in August of 2021. From there, 286 tested and 36 became recruit officers who went on to the academy.“We are the individuals seeking the change. I’m from the community. I grew up in Indianapolis,” Parker said.“The more people that we can recruit that are good hearted, critical thinking officers are the more people that are going to protect you,” McAfee said.
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