The Justice Department has agreed to end a decade of federal supervision over the Seattle Police Department for its use of excessive force. DOJ filed a proposed agreement with Seattle to end a 2012 consent decree.
Bellevue Police Department aims to attract officers from other cities with hefty signing bonus
Bellevue Police Chief Steve Mylett at the KIRO Radio studios. (Matt Pittman/MyNorthwest)
While the Seattle Police Department continues to face staffing problems, Bellevue is facing issues of its own, albeit on a much smaller scale.
“For a department our size, that’s a problem,” he told KTTH’s Jason Rantz Show.
Mylett says the extra vacancies were created when several senior officers decided to retire, some of which did so unexpectedly.
In order to fill those gaps, the department is offering a $16,000 signing bonus for officers signing on from other cities. That comes with a few caveats, mandating at least two prior years as a certified peace officer, the completion of a field training program, and then going through a probationary period after being hired on.