JERSEY CITY – The city has been awarded a $1.875 million COPS grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to hire 15 new police officers.
The fifteen officers will be part of a class of 60 new recruits expected to join the force in late December. Another six of the officers in the new class will be funded through a grant the City previously received to hire veterans.
“We made a commitment to hiring more police officers as enhanced public safety is a top priority of our administration,” said Mayor Fulop. “With this new class, we will have hired 132 officers and are continuing to redeploy personnel to the areas most in need. We will continue to seek funding such as the COPS grant to hire additional officers.”
This will the third class of officers to hired by Mayor Fulop in the year and a half since taking office. The first class of 34 officers was sworn in December of 2013 and 38 officers joined the department in June. Currently, there are 797 sworn officers in the department.
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