ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today issued the following statement after the Maryland State Police announced that effective January 1, 2022, the state will increase the starting pay of trooper candidates by 45%:
“Today, we are taking the first step in implementing our $150 million Re-Fund The Police Initiative by ensuring that we offer more competitive salaries to the troopers who will be putting their lives on the line every day to keep the rest of us safe. We need more investment in public safety so that we can recruit and retain quality officers, increase diversity, expand community policing efforts, improve training, and provide better technology and equipment.
“Instead of defunding the police, we are re-funding the police.”
First smart thing Hogan has done pray other states do the same. Any that left due to cuts I hope they are rehired with the increase.
The Correctional Officers should be Paid ABOVE the state police & have Better benefits too !! FACT
So how much of a raise will current the troopers receive?
HOGAN, aka HITLER, is trying to return to being a REPUBLICAN. HOGAN, aka HITLER, is attempting to run for another political office and is changing his from his true color of BLUE back to his chameleon RED hoping voters will not remember his trait of being a traitor REPUBLICAN and screwing the citizens of MARYLAND by voting DEMOCRAT on BILLS