Sheriff to Add Deputies With $3-Million Grant
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY — The Sheriff’s Department will receive more than $3 million from the federal government to hire 41 new community policing officers.
The grant is part of a $30-million package to hire 416 officers in 34 states, announced Friday by President Clinton. The funding will be provided by the Justice Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services--a Clinton administration initiative to put an additional 100,000 community policing officers on the streets.
The latest grant will be used to hire new sheriff’s deputies, allowing experienced field sergeants who had been assigned to community policing duties to return to supervisory roles.
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