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Monmouth police say public safety fee paid for added officers, vehicles and fuller CSO coverage in first year
Summary
Sergeant Mike Strack told the city council the public safety fee funded three new officers (bringing sworn ranks to 16), two vehicle replacements, a full‑time Community Service Officer and expanded community programs — improvements councilors praised while pressing for sustainable funding.
Sergeant Mike Strack presented the city’s first-year Public Safety Fee report, saying the fee allowed Monmouth Police to add three officers — bringing the department to 16 sworn officers — maintain a 15th position and hire a 16th trainee now in the academy. “We’ve added 3 new officers to our staff, which brings us to 16 sworn as we speak,” Strack said, and later summarized: “The public safety fee has allowed us to maintain that fifteenth officer position. We’ve hired for the sixteenth.”
The fee also funded equipment and fleet maintenance. Strack told the council the department purchased two vehicles this year as part of a planned rotation and is catching up on a decade-long backlog: “we were able to get 2 vehicles this year… one was sitting at 12 years old, and the other 1 was at 11.” He described efforts to streamline inventory,…
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