NEWSMAX: Many of Pennsylvania’s state police officers are coming close to retirement age, meaning the department could be facing a serious manpower shortage unless the state finds money to train and hire more troopers.
Anticipated retirements could reduce the number of troopers to 3,924 in 2015, or 75 fewer than the department’s authorized 4,689 troopers, reports the Harrisburg Patriot-News. The police force could shrink even more through 2018, as hundreds more troopers who were hired in the early 1990s become eligible for retirement.
“We need to have a better plan, and we need to lay out what we’re going to do over the next couple years,” Joseph Kovel, president of the Pennsylvania State Troopers Association, told a joint gathering of the Senate Law and Justice and the House Judiciary committees… (more)
