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CHP union urges DROP plan as retirements, large-event demands strain staffing
Summary
The California Association of Highway Patrolmen told a Senate budget subcommittee that the Highway Patrol is stretched by retirements, overtime and deployments to major events and urged a deferred-retirement option plan (DROP) to keep experienced officers on duty.
Jake Johnson, president of the California Association of Highway Patrolmen and an active sworn California Highway Patrol officer, told a California State Senate budget subcommittee the CHP is taking on expanded duties while losing experienced officers to retirement and attrition.
“I was elected by be the president of the California Association Highway Patrolmen, which represents 6,900 active frontline men and women,” Johnson told the panel. He said the CHP has hired roughly 1,000 new officers between February 2022 and February 2025 but that roughly the same number left the force in that period, “mostly to retirement.” Johnson said about 1,000 sworn personnel are eligible to retire now and an additional 1,000 will become eligible over the next three years.
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