For the first time in its history Windsor police have hired nine experienced police officers.
Chief Al Fredrick says they needed to get new officer deployed quickly because of some unexpected retirements.
"To hire a cadet and put him through the training process, and get him to the police college for three months and then another three months with a coach officer it takes about a year," says Fredrick.
The new experienced officers were able to be deployed in about six weeks. They bring four to 15 years of experience from other police forces in Ontario.
"They all have different areas of expertise within their own police services so some of them are breath technicians, some of them are fraud investigators, sexual assault investigators. There's a huge cost to training officers to that level which was of course incurred by the agencies that they came from," says Frederick.
