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Police academy leaders urge careful pension study; law-enforcement advisory board stops short of mandating statewide pursuit policy
Summary
Vermont Police Academy leaders told the Senate Government Operations Committee that moving academy staff into a different retirement group could harm recruitment and retention; the committee asked for an actuarial study. Separately, the Law Enforcement Advisory Board said it would not press for a single statewide pursuit policy and emphasized training and accountability.
Academy leaders testified to the Senate Committee on Government Operations on Feb. 26 about staffing, pension classification and pursuit-policy practice. Kenneth Hawkins, deputy director for the Vermont Criminal Justice Council and the academy, described long-standing retention and recruitment challenges and urged caution before changing staff retirement-group classification.
Hawkins said most academy staff are currently in 'group f' and that moving them wholesale to 'group c' would require many employees to give up previously accrued retirement credit; that prospect could lead to losses of experienced trainers. He…
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