Bill No. 56-22 Proposed 2023 Police Salary Ordinance

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(b) Police Recruit Annual Pay. A Recruit of the South Bend Police Department shall be classified separately from sworn members of the Department. A Recruit shall complete the State of Indiana training program or its equivalent and commence duties as an officer before being sworn in as an officer of the South Bend Police Department. Upon the effective sworn date, a Recruit shall be paid as a Patrolman 2nd Class. The maximum annual pays of a Police Department Recruit shall be as follows: Pay Classification 2023 2024 2025 Police Recruit (c) Lateral Entry Program. The Common Council authorizes the South Bend Police Department to offer between dollars ($ to dollars ($ ) as a one-time bonus to any individual found to be eligible and qualified to be a candidate on the Department, who has the requisite law enforcement experience and certification(s) for such a lateral entry into the South Bend Police Department. Any sworn member who received monies pursuant to this Lateral Entry Program and who leaves employment from the South Bend Police Department before his/her one (1) year anniversary with the Department, shall be required to pay back to the South Bend Police Department any and all lateral bonus monies received. A lateral entry officer with two (2) years or less of service as a certified officer shall enter the South Bend Police Department as a Patrolman Second Class. Upon completing Field Training Program (FTO), such lateral officer shall be eligible for promotion to Patrolman First Class. (d) Police Officer Recruitment Bonus Program. The Police Officer Recruitment Bonus Program which originally became effective January 1, 2015, shall continue in full, force and effect. Any sworn member of the South Bend Police Department, who assists in the recruitment and hiring of any full-time new sworn police officer, may be eligible upon Department verification of each of the stages listed below: 1. Upon an individual, who has been recruited by a South Bend Police Department sworn member, graduating from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, the sum of dollars ($� shall be earmarked for payment for that sworn member of the South Bend Police Department who assisted in the recruitment. 2. Upon that individual then successfully completing the Field Training Program (FTO), the sum of dollars ($ shall be earmarked for that sworn member of the South Bend Police Department who assisted in the recruitment. 3. For the sworn member of the South Bend Police Department to be eligible to receive the bonuses described above, the candidate who recruited the candidate must have successfully completed the specified phase of the hiring process and be hired by the South Bend Police Department as a full- time sworn member. Any sworn member of the South Bend Police Department desiring to participate in the Police Officer Recruitment Bonus Program shall be required to timely complete all required forms with the Department, and upon verification of his/her recruited candidate successfully meeting the hiring standards, processing for payment of the recruitment bonus shall commence. All Police Department regulations governing this program must be complied with by the sworn member of the South Bend Police Department in order for him/her to be qualified and eligible to be paid under this program.