No DeKalb County police officer or recruit will lose their job, County Commissioners insisted Thursday.
Last month, the Commission cut $36.6 million from the 2011 county budget, including $4.7 from the police department.
To meet that cut, the police department has proposed cutting 46 positions, including six new recruits and 40 applicants scheduled to start the police academy in June.
On Thursday, Commissioner Lee May told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that all of those positions will be filled.
“There will be no layoffs of police officers or anyone in the academy,” said May, chairman of the budget committee. “For the threat of the public safety academy to be cut is absurd. It won’t happen.”
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