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BEATRICE – Facing a shortage of officers and competition police departments are feeling, The City of Beatrice has increased hourly pay for beginning and already experienced police officers.
Mayor Bob Morgan says the local department has lost some officers in recent weeks. "We lost one individual who got out of law enforcement altogether...we had a couple others, I believe who went to Kearney and Buffalo County...and then we lost one to a smaller community local, here. When you start losing officers the first thing you want to find out, is why? Tobias (Tempelmeyer) and Chief (John) Hickman have done exit interviews with the officers that have left...and really it doesn't have anything to do with the department. The department is running well and being led well by everybody that's there. But, it really came down to wage."
Morgan said in one instance, a Beatrice officer took an eight-dollar-an-hour increase at a smaller area department. Another officer is on active military duty overseas. Morgan says there’s another concern with today’s environment for hiring police officers.
"What we're finding is that there's not a lot of young people that want to go into law enforcement, and even if you find a young person today to go into law enforcement...and you hire them...they probably aren't going to do you any good for ten months, because they have to go into the academy and then come back. We're not alone. There was an article in the Omaha World-Herald where the Omaha Police...
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