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Richmond Police aim to restore environmental officers to every precinct after retirements
Summary
Chief Rick Edwards told the Public Safety Standing Committee the department now has one environmental officer after attrition and seeks to use hire-back and recruitment to restore positions to each precinct to handle quality-of-life enforcement.
Chief Rick Edwards of the Richmond Police Department told the Public Safety Standing Committee that the department’s environmental officer program has fallen from four officers — one assigned to each police precinct — to a single officer through retirements.
"I'm Rick Edwards. I'm the chief of police for the City Of Richmond," Edwards said. He identified the remaining environmental officer as Karen Spencer, based in the Second Precinct, and said she currently handles code-enforcement complaints citywide.
Edwards described the environmental officer role as focused on quality-of-life and code-enforcement issues that contribute to…
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