{"id":5627,"date":"2022-07-21T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2022-07-21T14:53:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T14:53:04","slug":"police-recruitment-is-a-priority-with-the-city-of-toledo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/police-recruitment-is-a-priority-with-the-city-of-toledo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Recruitment Is a Priority with the City of Toledo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5643\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5643\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sgt.-Lourdes-Rocha-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sgt.-Lourdes-Rocha-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sgt.-Lourdes-Rocha-168x250.jpg 168w, http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Sgt.-Lourdes-Rocha.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Lourdes Rocha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>The Truth Staff<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once again the Toledo Police Department is seeking recruits for its upcoming police class \u2013 the one that starts in March 2023. That effort is being led by Sgt. Lourdes Rocha of the TPD Backgrounds and Recruitment Unit.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an effort, says Rocha, geared to both building up the number of sworn officers and to increasing the diversity within the department to reflect the population of the city the department serves.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate goal, established by Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz, is to bring the number of police officers to 700. Currently the department has 641 sworn officers and the class currently in session that started on June 25, has 40 students. However, getting to 700 will be no small task says Rocha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to keep up with retirements,\u201d she says of the ongoing struggle to maintain numbers in an age when officers see opportunities to leave the department with their pensions after 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can stay longer,\u201d she says, \u201cbut a lot are now leaving sooner than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rocha joined the Recruitment Unit four years ago in an effort to ensure that area residents knew of the opportunities available. \u201cI wanted to give back to the community by showing what the department has to offer \u2013 there are a lot of different things we offer as a career,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Truth Staff Once again the Toledo Police Department is seeking recruits for its upcoming police class \u2013 the one that starts in March 2023. That effort is being led by Sgt. Lourdes Rocha of the TPD Backgrounds and Recruitment Unit. It\u2019s an effort, says Rocha, geared to both building up the number of sworn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[131],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}