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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”
“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

Good, go ahead and bleed.....we need new blood in the Police Department anyway..don't defund the police, reteain the police

 


'We've been bleeding officers': Fairfax police union says officers need to be paid better


by Nick Minock

Thursday, September 23rd 2021

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — The President of the Virginia Police Benevolent Association’s Fairfax County Chapter is sounding the alarm.

“We’ve been bleeding officers left and right,” said Ali Soheilian.

Soheilian and the union’s board sent a letter to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisor’s this week warning the Fairfax County Police Department is more than 100 officers short and they are losing more by the week. They are calling this is a staffing crisis.

The union said the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors needs to take positive action.

In their letter, the Virginia PBA said patrol officers are pressed to more each day while they cover the workload of officers who have left. All of that while violent crime is rising rapidly in their jurisdiction, according to their letter.

The letter claims morale is down at the police department and officers in Fairfax County are leaving the department for better paying jobs at police departments in nearby Prince William and Loudoun Counties.

The PBA board is requesting the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to take swift action by approving better pay for officers.

“When you tell these officers that they are not worth the money you are basically telling them what you value and what you don’t value as a county board of supervisors,” said Soheilian. “It’s a quick fix. They’ve skipped over us with cost of living adjustments and market rate adjustments raises in terms of 14 percent over the years.”

“If something doesn’t change eventually, they are going to have to stop staffing certain positions,” Soheilian added. “Your specialty units that investigates major crimes might be impacted. We might have to pull officers from different resources to staff the street because what’s happening is you’re going to get overwork, tired officers that are responding. It could impact your response times as we’ve seen it impact agencies across the nation.”

7News took these staffing concerns to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman.

“I don’t see this as a Fairfax County problem. Clearly it’s a nationwide problem,” said Jeffrey McKay.

McKay acknowledged the staffing challenges at the police department and defended what the county currently pays its officers.

“I believe we are very competitive to our peer jurisdictions and that’s something we look at annually in our budget process,” he said. “We’ve been focused on recruitment efforts We never stop looking at pay. We want to recruit the best officers. Our board will continue to do what we always do which is look at this every year and make sure Fairfax County remains competitive in police pay.”

 

 

 

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