The Iowa City Police Department has started working on a program that will allow them to hire two military veterans. The plans are still in the works, but they were given a grant of $250,000 to create the positions in their department as part of a federal program.
The Iowa City Police Department received $250,000 from the United States Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to hire either a military veteran or a previous officer that was laid off.
The Iowa City Police Department has not laid anyone off recently, so they have decided to hire military veterans if the program goes through. According to the police department, though, they still have to be sure that they can take the budget cut because the grant will not pay for every part of the process.
The Iowa City Council has to first approve the addition of two new positions within the police department, and they have to agree to put up the amount to pay the officers as well, which will probably be as much as the grant itself.
Nonetheless, the police department sees the grant and the possibility as a very good thing that will not hurt the taxpayers much at all with the grants and the possibility of creating two new jobs in the area for military veterans seeking employment.
The grant is part of a federal program called the COPS program. It is designed to save about 800 law enforcement positions as well as help some military veterans in the process.
The Iowa City Police Department received $250,000 from the United States Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to hire either a military veteran or a previous officer that was laid off.
The Iowa City Police Department has not laid anyone off recently, so they have decided to hire military veterans if the program goes through. According to the police department, though, they still have to be sure that they can take the budget cut because the grant will not pay for every part of the process.
The Iowa City Council has to first approve the addition of two new positions within the police department, and they have to agree to put up the amount to pay the officers as well, which will probably be as much as the grant itself.
Nonetheless, the police department sees the grant and the possibility as a very good thing that will not hurt the taxpayers much at all with the grants and the possibility of creating two new jobs in the area for military veterans seeking employment.
The grant is part of a federal program called the COPS program. It is designed to save about 800 law enforcement positions as well as help some military veterans in the process.
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