{"id":29505,"date":"2025-10-30T01:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/29505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:27:08","slug":"bakersfield-police-chief-discusses-staffing-and-recruitment-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/29505\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield police chief discusses staffing and recruitment efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBFX\/KBFX) Chief Terry of the Bakersfield Police Department discussed the future of staffing and recruitment efforts within the department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the passage of the Public Safety and Vital Services Measure back in 2018-2019, we really set about to increase the department&#8217;s complement. The authorized staffing level by a hundred officers,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bakersfield police chief discusses staffing and recruitment efforts (KBAK)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/9a21e022-2b09-4a49-b68d-49ba42f9e12e-VALLE_BPDRIDEALONGSPEEDING_PAULCAM_0034_frame_993.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police chief discusses staffing and recruitment efforts (KBAK)<\/p>\n<p>Since 2019, the department has hired 272 recruits and graduated 168. Recruitment remains a key initiative, despite challenges faced by many cities in policing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had challenges just like every other city with regard to policing in particular. We&#8217;ve been through a lot over the last five or six years,&#8221; Terry noted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bakersfield police chief discusses staffing and recruitment efforts (KBAK)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/69afdca7-6167-4bb6-87c7-15200f5f8dfa-chief.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police chief discusses staffing and recruitment efforts (KBAK)<\/p>\n<p>Chief Terry praised his team for their efforts in building capacity and relationships, and for marketing the police department and the profession as a &#8220;wonderful, noble profession.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>On the topic of officer salary contracts, Terry stated, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s not something I&#8217;m directly involved in. The city manager and the city council make all those kinds of decisions, but we are in the midst of labor negotiations and budget conversations at large.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bakersfield police chief discusses staffing and recruitment efforts (KBAK)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c8855c39-0b0f-4b77-bcdf-ac521224c326-police.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield police chief discusses staffing and recruitment efforts (KBAK)<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized his role in advocating for the resources the department needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBFX\/KBFX) Chief Terry of the Bakersfield Police Department discussed the future of staffing and recruitment efforts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-29505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}