Calls to the Sweet Home Police Department for service were lower in 2012 than 2011, and Chief Bob Burford considers that fortunate because 2012 was also a rebuilding year, with the loss of four officers at the end of 2011.
Three Sweet Home officers took jobs in Lebanon, which offered better pay and benefits; and one retired.
While we have been able to hire four excellent replacements, the cost of their recruitment and training was…