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Agency official urges recruits to join a 'full-service' police department
Summary
An agency official told recruits in the academy they should seek a "full-service" police department that allows officers to perform every police function and emphasized the importance of teamwork and speaking up. The remarks were made during departmental remarks recorded in the transcript.
An agency official urged recruits currently in police academies to choose a department that offers broad, hands-on experience, saying such a department lets officers "perform every police function." The official said the department seeks team players who will speak up when needed and who can be relied on to complete the job.
The official said, "I firmly believe if you're a recruit sitting in a police academy right now, you should wanna go to a department that is a full service department." They added that "you can really be who you wanna be here," and emphasized: "We need team players. We need people who are going to speak up when they need to speak up, but also we can rely on them to get the job done when when that's what we need." The remarks focused on recruitment and departmental culture rather than specific policy or budget actions.
