30 years is too long in any career especially one where it requires you to put your life on the line for the community. And taking away time from your wife and children

I strongly support this. It will help greatly when it come to recruitment, as well as keeping the officers we already have. So many have transferred over the past several years because of the new retirement situation.

100% support this. Hopefully in the future we can compete with other agencies/departments and drop it down to 20 years.

Must have better incentives for new Police officers to join

I support 25 years retirement.

Definitely in support. 25 years is long enough and gives them a healthy amount of years after retirement to enjoy life.

The current retirement eligibility rules will cause more officers to leave, placing an
additional burden on those who stay. This will make the physical/emotional stresses of
the job even worse. Let’s make it fair, equal and reasonable. Thank you

I support the 25 year pension.

I support this resolution 22-200

In support to remove the minimum age requirement! 25 years is a long time in a very stressful career. The minimum age requirement to retire is off putting to younger people who might want to join. Especially being in patrol for 25 years which has rotating shifts and much more high stress situations.

I’m in support of the 25 year retirement plan.

In full support of removing the minimum age requirement for police officer retirement. I believe it will ultimately benefit all parties involved.

This is very important and needs to be done to support our Officers and their families.

I strongly support this resolution.

I support this resolution 22-200

It is true and the stress induced lives of police officers is what kills them. Unusual shift work, rotating from day to night to afternoon. In mainland, most departments let officers retire in 20 years, as well as federal law enforcement agencies. There’s good reason behind this. Let’s save the lives of those who save ours.

I support the 25 year retirement time period. Will help with recruitment, retention, and just overall well-being and health of Officer who spend their career in this profession, as difficult as it is becoming.

Sir and Ma'am,
As a current police officer serving under the "new" 30 year plan with the age 55 I can tell you that any person who I speak to I advise to not join this department simply due to this poor retirement system. It is disheartening to know that we have to get to this point for you to do something that never should have been implemented in the first place. I know several officers, myself included, that are willing and actively looking for other departments in the mainland for the better retirement as in a 25yr. To expect someone to spend 30 years as a officer is idiotic. Not just expect but demand at this point with this retirement system. This needs to be changed now if you want our citizens to stay protected by having correct staffing, otherwise your just setting the citizens and us up for failure. Do your job and fix what you broke.

You should be able to retire after completing your required years of service no matter what your age is.

I joined the Police Department at the age of 22 and have now been in the department for almost 10 years. Since starting I have noticed the work load for patrol officers have greatly increased causing more and more officers to transfer or resign. When an officer transfers or resigns it leaves our department even more short staffed. With the number of vacancies in the department it is also limited opportunities for promotions. For an officer to be stuck on patrol working 30 years is extremely taxing and unappealing. I highly suggest we remove the minimum age requirement for police officer retirement.