Wenatchee officer praises department camaraderie and family life in recruitment testimonial

Greg Lee, a patrol officer with the Wenatchee Police Department, said he joined the agency as a lateral hire and praised its internal culture, family-friendly location and opportunities for specialty work.

"When I go home at night and I look at my wife and my son, I know that I did something good today," Greg Lee said. "I decided to come here as a lateral because everybody was just very happy as as a department. Everybody was very kind to each other."

Lee told listeners the department offered "really good camaraderie" and "a lot of room for growth," and said he is particularly interested in SWAT work. He also described Wenatchee as "a wonderful place for a family," citing local schools and outdoor recreation that he said are within a 45-minute drive.

The remarks were personal testimony about recruitment and retention rather than a statement of policy or funding. No hiring numbers, recruitment targets or formal actions were discussed in the record. The comments combined observations about workplace culture ("nothing but support. Nothing but happiness") with quality-of-life factors that Lee said influenced his decision to relocate.

Lee's statements indicate reasons an individual officer chose to join the Wenatchee Police Department but do not provide details about departmentwide staffing levels, budgets or official recruitment programs. City officials or department leaders were not recorded making policy statements or presenting hiring data during these remarks.

For readers seeking specifics about police hiring programs, recruitment incentives or staffing levels, those details were not provided in Lee's remarks and would need to be obtained from the Wenatchee Police Department or city human resources.