Nearly 100 New CPD Officers Hit The Streets
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Nearly 100 new probationary police officers will hit Chicago's streets to start field training and neighborhood patrol, Chicago Police said on Sunday.
The 96 new officers are part of CPD's efforts to add nearly 1,000 new police officers to the department by the end of 2018.
"My point has always been -- we need more police officers on the streets and we need to get out kids' guns and gangs off the streets," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Sunday. "It's our constant effort to make sure that our rank and file are at full strength to do what they need to do."
Chief Communications Officer Anthony Guglielmi says most of the city's 22 police districts will receive some additional manpower, with larger amounts going to more active areas on the South and West sides.
Another class of new officers, which will be similar in size, is scheduled to be implemented in October.
