Bill seeks to help small police departments buy gear, pay hiring and retention bonuses [Breaking]
A bipartisan bill working through Congress seeks to help small police departments buy gear and pay hiring and retention bonuses — a bill that the congressman whose district straddles coastal North County and Orange County is co-sponsoring.
The bill would authorize $50 million a year for a new grant program to help police departments with fewer than 200 officers, such as Carlsbad, Escondido, La Mesa and National City. The funding may be used to cover a wide swath of expenses, including de-escalation and domestic violence response training. It could also pay for body-worn cameras and storage of the digital footage and for mental health resources for officers, Levin said.Carlsbad Police Officers Association President Jim Willis said that city’s Police Department would benefit from the retention money.
Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, called the bill “a meaningful piece of bipartisan legislation.”
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