Academy enrollees will receive an $8-per-hour bump, along with a $5,000 signing bonus.
Mayor Justin Bibb with police officials in City Hall. He is flanked by James O’Malley, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 8 , and Det. Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association on the right.CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cadets enrolled in Cleveland’s police academy will receive a pay bump from $16 to $24 an hour, along with a $5,000 signing bonus, following negotiations between the city and two leading police unions, Mayor Justin Bibb announced Wednesday.
The deal, which Bibb said would be sealed Wednesday through a memorandum of understanding, comes as the police division faces significant staffing shortages and is well below its recruitment goals this year. Though the division is budgeted to hire 180 new officers this year, only 37 have either graduated from or are currently enrolled in the academy, officials have said. An additional class will begin in October, and the city is hopeful the new pay structure will attract a larger number of recruits.
The police academy runs seven and a half months. In addition to the pay boosts, the city will offer incentives to cadets who either graduated from college or served in the military. Those recruits will begin their service on a higher patrol tier than is typical, effectively netting them one-year, $3,700 salary enhancements, officials said.The mayor was flanked by two key union negotiators: Det.
City officials are framing the academy pay deal as the first phase of negotiations that will ultimately address officer retention and deployment. Bibb has said that
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