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An internal report by the Petersburg borough suggests incentive pay and salary increases to help fill vacant jobs and retain employees in the police department. Members of the department say they’re in crisis mode for a lack of dispatchers and the problem has gotten worse this winter.
Petersburg’s police chief, officers and dispatchers testified to the borough assembly in February about long hours, understaffing and a lack of incentive to stay on the job. Chief Jim Kerr told the assembly that police officers were already filling in to answer emergency calls at the dispatch station with just three dispatchers on staff to cover shifts 24/7. Since then one of those dispatchers has resigned leaving just two…
