![]() In March, the council approved another $500,000 in ARPA funding to give incentives to new police hires. 14, the council approved a resolution using ARPA funds to give premium pay to qualifying Flint Police Department sworn officers, Flint Fire Department certified fire suppression personnel, and qualifying public safety civilian support personnel. Morris Township officers responded to 28,000. Additionally, he said Flint officers responded to 58,000 calls in 2021, and Mt. In Flint, entry-level officers make $19.43 an hour. ![]() Morris Township make an hourly salary of $20.73. He compared Flint’s numbers to another department and found that entry-level officers in Mt. Green said wanting higher pay and smaller workloads are the most common reasons officers give for leaving the department. I’m willing to spend a million dollars or more trying.” “And if we get the recruitment packages together, I just believe we’ll get our numbers up, and we can fix the patrol and or the detective unit. “We can decide how big a budget we need for advertising because that advertising can be seen from Flint to Bay City to Midland, Saginaw,” he said. He said the budget doesn’t need to change now because those positions are vacant, but once they are filled, he would like to upgrade the positions to full-time and change the future budget.Ĭouncilman Eric Mays proposed that the council come up with a budget to “go big” for advertising police officer positions on television. “Those civilian employees that are part-time, I need at least four of them to be upgraded to full-time,” Green said. The civilian staff, he said, are the ones doing the internal work like answering phones and taking complaints, freeing up officers to patrol and respond to calls. One area he said would be helpful to the department is for more of the part-time civilian staff to become full-time. He said that nine sworn police officers are eligible to retire by July 1. “The problem is we’re constantly competing with other departments, officers transferring and lately the biggest void has been retirements,” Green said. 1, 2020, Green said that the department has hired 29 police officers, but there are still 25 vacant officer positions. He said the department anticipates sending another seven to the academy soon. The department currently has 100 sworn police officers, he said, with five people in the police academy now. ![]() “We have to increase our visibility in the community, and that’s only done by hiring more police officers,” Green said. The finance department was not present at the hearing to answer questions council had about various aspects of the budget. Police Chief Terence Green said he wasn’t sure why the number of full-time police officers decreased in the budget. For 2023, the number of part-time police officers increases to 11, and civilian positions drop to 37. For 2023, the proposed budget includes 116 full-time police officers and 27 full-time civilian positions.įor part-time positions, there are eight police officers and 38 civilian officers budgeted for 2022. “So as a community, I think we can expect high murder rates for the given future until we can come up with a budget that escalates more enforcement, more boots on the ground, more investigators, the whole thing.”Īccording to the budget, there are 118 full-time police officer positions and 24 full-time civilian personnel positions budgeted for 2022. “We know from current trends that if we have X amount of police officers, we can expect X amount of crime, and we’re not doing anything to sway those in great numbers,” said Councilman Dennis Pfeiffer. Here are some of the concerns council members brought up related to the plan for policing in the community and the proposed budget. According to the proposed budget, police and fire departments account for 62% of the FY2023 budgeted General Fund expenditures.
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