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S.F. police commissioners warned of a possible 25% staffing drop as academy classes vanish; $5 million per class estimate given
Summary
Commissioners were told the SFPD could lose up to 25% of sworn officers over the next two years without additional academy classes. Interim CFO Deborah Landis and HR director Alice Fielding said roughly 100 officers retire annually, 479 are currently eligible to retire and one recruit class costs about $5 million.
The San Francisco Police Commission was warned Wednesday that the department could face a substantial drop in sworn staffing over the next two years unless the city funds additional recruit academies.
Interim Chief Financial Officer Deborah Landis told the commission the department projected “somewhere around a 100 retirements for next year,” and later estimated that in order to replace those losses the city would need to run at least two academy classes a year. Alice Fielding, the department’s human resources director, said 479 officers were currently eligible to retire and that that pool would grow to roughly 550–598 over the next two years.
The commission pressed officials on timing and cost. Landis and HR staff estimated a single 50-person…
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