The draft ordinance was discussed at a committee meeting at Seattle City Hall on Thursday afternoon.
SEATTLE — New attempts are underway to hire more Seattle police officers as the Seattle City Council considers ways to improve the hiring process.she hopes will help improve police recruitment and retention. This draft comes after a March Public Safety Committee meeting where Seattle Police Department and the“SPD continues to lose more officers than it is able to hire and 2023 was no exception.
The draft ordinance would create a four-person recruitment and retention office within SPD to speed up the hiring process and better staying in touch with applicants. One new position would be added, the other three would be moved over from the city's human resources department. The ordinance would also encourage the Public Safety Civil Service Commission to switch to or add a different application system.
“If they have to use another test that nobody else is using, that is a dis-incentive to include Seattle in their application process,” said Nelson.“I think people all over Seattle understand that the police force is down significantly and that in turn has resulted in delayed response times and all sorts of other problems,” said Joel Merkel, the co-chair of the Seattle Community Police Commission.
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