CRIME & SAFETY
Retirement of Poughkeepsie police captain increases manpower shortage (VIDEO)
POUGHKEEPSIE – City police captain Steven Minard worked his last shift with the Poughkeepsie Police Department on Friday, ending a 40-year career with the department. It also highlights the department’s staffing shortage, which is supposed to have 96 officers but is down to 75. Minard, who began his...
Gillibrand off target about police staffing shortages, cops say
HUDSON VALLEY – Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, one of New York’s two US Senators, has been campaigning on a bill to help solve the staffing shortage plaguing many police departments in New York and across the country recently, making campaign stops around the state to tout a new bill during election season.
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