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Internal Reforms For Police Dept.
posted (January 3, 2019)

And one of the changes coming from the bottom to the top is a change in the recruitment of police officers.  Lovell told us about this and other reforms planned for 2019:..

(Ret.) Col. George Lovell - CEO, National Security
"One of the first things that we need to look at is our recruitment policy, that we have. And there are a number of things that we’ll be doing in terms of aptitude tests and some other tests that we intend to do to ensure that we get the right people to be able to serve us. We’re looking at our investigation capacity to enhance that and to do so, we will have to ensure that we get in professional trainers. And so, basic investigation training will start as early as this month. And we’re also looking at in service training for all of our service personnel to make sure that they can do a better job at which they have been paid to do."

"The police department will undertake customer service training for all rank and so we believe that we want for our people to be better servants to… our police officers to be better servants to our people and to carry out their functions so that people can feel as if though they are being served the way they are expected to be served."

The changes in recruitment practices come after the years of 2012 to 2015 when the Department went through the largest increase in manpower in its history.  

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