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DOC's recruitment and retention challenges
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A Department of Correction official provides detailed information about the department's recruitment and retention challenges, highlighting high attrition rates and the need for more officers. Council Member Stevens and the Commissioner discuss potential strategies to address these issues.
- DOC faces high attrition rates, with 674 officers leaving in CY 2024 and projections of hundreds more eligible for retirement in coming years
- The department is struggling to hire and retain officers at a rate that matches attrition
- Council Member Stevens suggests exploring recruitment strategies targeting high school students
- The Commissioner mentions existing programs like SEADS and Cadets, and emphasizes the need for early exposure to the profession in schools
Sherrieann Rembert
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Plus one 1,100 offices.
3:29:27
1,100 officers.
3:29:27
To meet the baseline to to ensure that our attrition matches the the cadence of of us recruiting is not on par.
3:29:37
For example, in oh, my god.
3:29:42
For attrition for attrition in CY twenty four, six hundred over 674 members of service that retired or decided to leave the job or decided to go with NYPD or another agency.
3:29:57
For calendar year 02/25/2025, '2 hundred and '70 '4 members of service can retire.
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The end of this year, we are looking at another 439.
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Calendar year of 2026, we're gonna be at 734.
3:30:17
So the cadence of us hiring, onboarding, retention is is is not with within the required numbers that we need in order to backfill and replace our officers.
3:30:30
Definitely.
Althea Stevens
3:30:33
I have some ideas.
3:30:34
So, I'm gonna talk offline around because I know you said you were doing some tours with high school students and I think that there's some things we can do.
3:30:41
You guys know I'm the chair of Children's Youth Services so I definitely have some ideas around some recruitment and things
Lynelle Maginley-Liddie
3:30:47
that people Yeah additionally we have the SEADS program, the Cadets program, we're working on any pipeline programs so we can you know so you know expose people to what it is to work in a jail.
3:30:57
And I think we need to start in the schools from the very beginning, just like those days when you bring in a police officer, you bring in a correction officer to expose people to the profession.