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Police chief outlines staffing gains, grant pursuits and need for body cameras
Summary
The police chief told the Gardner Public Safety Committee the department has recruits in academy, is pursuing funding to make a domestic-violence advocate full time, and will ask the council for supplemental funds to buy body-worn cameras after grant attempts failed.
The Gardner police chief told the Public Safety Committee on Sept. 11 that the department has three recruits in academy training, with one graduating later that day, and that staffing remains strained by retirements and long-term injuries. The chief said the department is reviewing many qualified applicants and “we’re getting a little bit of help back.”
The chief said three retirements are expected — one Dec. 1, another Jan. 20 and a third by March — and several officers have been out with long-term injuries, including one for about nine months and another…
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