1st Edmonton Police Service recruits of the year graduate at city hall
Kilb said EPS hasn’t run an experienced officer program in several years and with many staffer reaching retirement, the service wanted to maintain coverage.“We want to make sure that we’re also attracting some experience here, right? So instead of just having a whole bunch of new people, we have different perspectives of policing mixed in as well,” Kilb explained.
Through the pandemic, EPS said it saw a slight drop in applicants and is looking to offset those numbers by increasing class sizes.“We’re not having any issues with filling, that’s for sure, but we’ve seen a decline in the amount of applications — not the quality.” Click to share quote on Twitter: "We're not having any issues with filling, that's for sure, but we've seen a decline in the amount of applications — not the quality."“Edmonton typically will do some out-of-town travel. What was out of the norm is with COVID there was no career fairs, there was no in-person events,” Kilb explained.“We want our people in Alberta to know that we want them here, we want them to stay here.
Click to share quote on Twitter: "We want our people in Alberta to know that we want them here, we want them to stay here."“One of my plans in the future is to become a student service officer, so I’m hoping to work with the youth in our city,” Nyikabe said.
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