Killian for Mayor 363 Main Street | Hartford, CT 06106 Office: (860) 560-1977 | Cell: (860) 798-2064 | www.killianformayor.com
retire. Without a doubt police department leadership could estimate with remarkable accuracy, the number of police from among those who are eligible for retirement who will likely submit retirement papers. The Council and Mayor should authorize continuous recruitment in anticipation of a class of not less than twenty officers (and more if needed). This should allow us to prevent a situation where we would not find ourselves way below the hiring necessity. It should also allow us to recruit in a fashion that will enhance our ability to ensure classes that reflect our city’s diversity.
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Revive the effort to secure lateral hires of sworn officers from other police departments to put more than a dozen new police officers on the ground immediately.
Very few of our neighboring towns have been reluctant to hire senior officers from the staff of our force and our retirees. But many of these towns, noting the career success of our excellent officers, are desirous of joining our department’s ranks, aware, in the words of the famous song, “
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if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere
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!” I understand a recent group of over fifteen such officers were proposed for lateral hire by the department they would receive appropriate re- training and deployment here. City Hall rejected plan for a bona fide concern: the proposed lateral hires weren’t as reflective of the city’s diversity as we would like. But given our current crisis, I believe most city residents, while applauding the determination to improve the department’s diversity, are immediately concerned with seeing the color blue in their neighborhood.
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Make better use of State Police resources
. While I appreciate past willingness of Governors to assign State Police to Hartford patrol duties, I think better use of these valued services could be made so that we put more of our cops, knowledgeable of the city, its problem areas and citizenry, on the streets patrolling by relieving them of duties that don’t require special city knowledge. Specifically, could they help in the booking process, prisoner transport to hospitals, lock-up responsibilities and the like? Could Correctional officers fill some of these duties for a four month period? These require trained officers, but not the same degree of local knowledge. [Continues on next page]
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Ask Police Union to waive rules and allow State Police partnership for a period of four
Paid for by Killian for Mayor. Frank Barrows, Treasurer. Approved by Robert Killian Jr.