GREAT-3(2) Reso 22-195 HAWAII STATE ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES (RESOLUTION 22-195, RELATING TO REMOVAL OF THE MINIMUM AGE REQUIREMENT FOR POLICE OFFICER RETIREMENT) (GREAT-3(2))
Officers who meet the required years of employment should be able to retire regardless of their age. Forcing someone to stay to simply reach an arbitrary age to retire is silly. High stress, high impact jobs such as police, fire fighters, paramedics, etc cause significant mental and health impacts on these employees. We should not be forcing them to work longer and erode their health down simply to reach a certain age. Let them work their years and then leave without penalty.
Being a retired Police Officer, I know the problems that can happen when an officer is working day after day with the pressure of doing your job and dealing with the worst side of the community that we have. This pressure is really unknown to most people, but there is a reason that we have a high rate of police Officers leaving the job. With the shorten time for retirement, I see a opportunity for the County of Maui to keep officers within the department as they can now see that there is a chance to serve the community and then making a chance for them to benefit being in the community that they worked and sacrificed for during their careers for their retirement. In Keeping the age and time requirements will continue to have the officers look at something better for their families and themselves.
My name is Nicholas Krau and as a resident of Waikapu, Maui County Police Officer and the Chairman of the Maui Chapter of the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers (SHOPO) I am in full SUPPORT of Resolution 22-195. I am not directly impacted by this resolution as I am grandfathered on the "old" retirement system. However, I can tell you first hand that we are loosing out on the opportunity to hire great local police applicants because of the eroding police officer benefits. We all know that police officers are not the most well liked professionals, but I think we can all agree that the profession is a very necessary one.
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Officers who meet the required years of employment should be able to retire regardless of their age. Forcing someone to stay to simply reach an arbitrary age to retire is silly. High stress, high impact jobs such as police, fire fighters, paramedics, etc cause significant mental and health impacts on these employees. We should not be forcing them to work longer and erode their health down simply to reach a certain age. Let them work their years and then leave without penalty.
Being a retired Police Officer, I know the problems that can happen when an officer is working day after day with the pressure of doing your job and dealing with the worst side of the community that we have. This pressure is really unknown to most people, but there is a reason that we have a high rate of police Officers leaving the job. With the shorten time for retirement, I see a opportunity for the County of Maui to keep officers within the department as they can now see that there is a chance to serve the community and then making a chance for them to benefit being in the community that they worked and sacrificed for during their careers for their retirement. In Keeping the age and time requirements will continue to have the officers look at something better for their families and themselves.
Aloha,
My name is Nicholas Krau and as a resident of Waikapu, Maui County Police Officer and the Chairman of the Maui Chapter of the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers (SHOPO) I am in full SUPPORT of Resolution 22-195. I am not directly impacted by this resolution as I am grandfathered on the "old" retirement system. However, I can tell you first hand that we are loosing out on the opportunity to hire great local police applicants because of the eroding police officer benefits. We all know that police officers are not the most well liked professionals, but I think we can all agree that the profession is a very necessary one.