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.
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PURDY, Wash. - A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stealing COVID-19 vaccines, Botox and thousands of dollars’ worth of medical equipment from a dentist in Purdy, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office says. According to the sheriff's office, the man is also responsible for a burglary at a salon. All of the stolen property has been recovered. Deputies with the Peninsula Department were called to a dentist office in Purdy for a burglary.
Man stabbed in neck at Lakewood apartment complex
(Pierce County Sheriff s Office)
A man was stabbed in the neck at an apartment complex in Lakewood. Police say the suspect is outstanding.
The 59-year-old victim was taken to a hospital with life threatening injuries, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.
A neighbor told police the man, who lives at the complex, showed up to her door with slashes and stab wounds.
“I was trying to ask him questions because I don’t know him well enough, and he couldn’t even speak. He sounded like he was gurgling blood and he kept spitting out blood,” Nevaeh Brewer told KIRO 7.