Lakeland officials have struck a deal to increase pay for the city’s unionized police officers in an attempt to address the department’s issues with hiring and retention.
City commissioners voted unanimously Monday to approve a Memorandum of Understanding with the Fraternal Order of Police’s Lakeland Lodge 185, which represents Lakeland Police Department’s officers, sergeants and lieutenants. It will increase wages while extending the union’s contract by two years.
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