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TPD shaping 2022 budget to address staffing shortage
Tucson low on cops By Jasmine Ramirez | April 8, 2021 at 6:40 PM MST - Updated April 8 at 6:41 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The Tucson Police Department is facing its lowest staffing levels in decades.
“We are really losing officers at a really significant rate. Each month we lose about one percent of the force, which means 12 percent a year. We’re only gaining six percent through academies,” said Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus at this week’s city council meeting.
Chief Magnus said the department lost five officers in the first week of April. TPD has 747 deployable officers but is funded for 884 positions. If the department continues on this track, he said it will have 707 officers during this time next year. He said the TPD has 14 people in its academy, but would typically have nearly 50 going through training.