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Committee reviews hiring bottlenecks for police, fire, EMS and nurses; DHR, departments outline reforms
Summary
DHR, Fire, Police and DPH briefed supervisors on recruitment and retention challenges: DHR described continuous testing and parallelized hiring steps, fire and police cited recruitment competition and EMS shortages, and DPH reported hundreds of nursing/clinician vacancies; committee continued the hearing for further reporting.
The committee convened a cross‑departmental briefing on Jan. 21 into why critical public‑safety and public‑health positions remain unfilled and what the city can do to shorten hiring timelines.
Kate Howard of the Department of Human Resources outlined reforms intended to shorten time‑to‑hire, including continuous testing via the National Testing Network, parallelizing physical and oral exams for police candidates, fee waivers for applicants, and creation of a civilian background…
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