Most agencies are experiencing a decline in those who want to be police officers and an acceleration in those retiring early or resigning altogether, says a national expert.
Law enforcement agencies throughout Southern California are still scrambling to rebuild their rank-and-file staffs three years after a national reckoning on policing triggered a wave of officer retirements and resignations.
Interestingly, the agencies find themselves essentially in competition with each other to either hire so-called lateral transfers — experienced officers who jump from one agency to another — or find recruits to undergo more time-consuming police academy training. The Los Angeles Police Academy held a graduation ceremony for recruit class 10-22 in Los Angeles on Friday, April 7, 2023.
The department — the largest sheriff’s force in the world and fourth largest law enforcement agency in the country — provides policing for about half of the incorporated cities in L.A. County as well as unincorporated county areas. Similarly, the Los Angeles Police Department — the nation’s third-largest municipal law enforcement agency — is trying to ramp up hiring to help offset 922 retirements and 383 resignations total in 2021 and 2022.
The force — the largest statewide law enforcement agency in the nation — last year launched a campaign called “Join the CHP 1,000” to attract new recruits. The agency does not hire lateral transfers.The Riverside Police Department is budgeted for 431 sworn personnel and currently has 83 vacancies, a rate of nearly 20%, though 23 of those are new positions created under a tax passed by voters in 2016 tax to bolster city services.
The Long Beach department is in the process of training 41 new officers while another group of recruits will begin attending the academy this month. In El Monte, the Police Department is budgeted for 122 police officers and has 10 vacancies. Chief Jake Fisher said that as with most agencies, the shortage has forced more officers to work mandatory overtime.
In a statement, interim Police Chief Rachel Tolber said the department “faces similar challenges in recruitment and retention as those felt across the U.S.” But as a result of proactive recruitment efforts, she said, the Redlands Police Department currently has seven cadets in the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Academy and three officers in field training.
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