In a memo to council members, Brookhaven city manager Christian Sigman said the increased pay in other markets was crippling their recruiting efforts.
“This not only compromises our ability to attract new and experienced applicants, it threatens our ability to retain current employees,” he said. The Brookhaven Police Department employs 73 officers for its city of about 50,000 residents, Police Chief Gary Yandura told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He plans to hire six more officers this year. Yandura said the department has struggled to hire experienced officers. Thirty-four percent of the department consists of new recruits with less than two years of experience. “We are looking to complement the young, less experienced officers with seasoned and tenured veterans,” he said. Yandura said the inexperienced recruits haven’t led to department performance issues, but he is hoping his next hires come with at least three years of experience. As part of the pay increase, the city increased the minimum and maximum salaries for the positions and adjusted pay for existing staff based on their history and experience, city spokesman Burke Brennan said in an email to the AJC. “So, an officer who was hired four years ago with 10 years of experience before he or she got here might receive a larger increase than an officer who has joined the force two years ago straight from the academy,” he said. The increase will be reflected in the first pay cycle in April. Brookhaven is the latest metro Atlanta jurisdiction to increase its police officers’ pay. In October, Atlanta City Council approved a 30 percent pay increase over the next three years for its police department. The DeKalb County Board of Commissioners increased public safety officials’ pay by 4 percent in November.
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Sounds about right. Do 10x the work for 1/4 the pay.👍🏼
So what happen to Dekalb getting the second part of the implementation that was accepted by the BOC. The other officers were supposed to be brought up to the correct pay grade.
The CEO and the BOC lied to the police department, they both received a large raise in January of this year but they refuse to finish what they promised to the police department and to fix the pay decompression. The only way the Dekalb fibers will get treated fairly is to unite and make a stand. Stop writing tickets and use your social coupon days.
Thinking a more impactful position would be to get busy policing aggressively as needed in that county. Forget revenue generating nonsense and enforce ALL laws as required by your oath. When your actions become newsworthy, the ones telling you to violate your oath by not stopping roving gangs on dirt bikes, etc. will be forced to explain their inept policies that have allowed crime to thrive unchallenged for years.
you have a point, but what about the crime of lying and stealing from the officers who have spent 15,20,25+ years serving this county and not being paid what they were told they would. Or what about the benefits being diminished and having to work furlough days. we appreciate the support but please don't point a finger or judges us until you put on a gunbelt and badge and put your life on the line each day to be treated like garbage by the department and by the public. just as you judge us now and claim we don't do our job or hold up the oath we took. we do our job every day and we do it proudly but we are tired of being lied to and cheated.
I have and do support you. I'd say a good attorney is in order along with a class-action suit.
BOTTOM LINE- You’re there in hiding, waiting to collect pension? CULPABLE
A yes man/woman doing the bidding of clear wrong-doers? CULPABLE
Serving yourself or superiors at the expense of citizens and even other officers? CULPABLE
Consider what you must live with today and take into the next life due to your actions/inactions.
What a bunch of parasites.
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