--- . Page 10 University Daily Kansan, April 23, 1981 Police want force beefed up By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter Unless the city provides funds to increase police patrols, there will not be enough officers to adequately protect Lawrence citizens and other policemen, Gary Sampson, Lawrence police officer, said yesterday. "We're getting to the point where we're 'short-handed'. Sampson said. "If someone calls in and he's in an accident of good chance he'll have to wait his turn." As chairman of the Lawrence Police Officers Association, Sampson is asking the city to finance increased police patrols and to increase salaries. purpose put in the city will respond by May 3, he said. Jackie McLeane, personnel director for the city, said she could not comment on Sampson's requests until she had more time to review them. "We're still looking into it," she said. THE POLICE association is asking for a $17,500 annual salary for beginning pay. Beginning pay will be $14,500. when the officers' current contract with the city expires at the end of the year. The association requested more street officers, who ride in patrol cars, Sampson said, because they have inexperience with the job and investigate work than they once did. "The street officer is the officer primarily responsible for a case," he And although the city has grown in population, there are fewer street officers now than there were several years ago, he said. "We're 13 men shorter now than what it was in 1975," he said. THE CITY now has 43 street officers who work in rotating shifts, he said. They are among 76 officers who work in the Lawrence department. Sampson said it was not unusual for a Lawrence policeman to feel that he might be endangered and that help was too far away. "I think it happens quite frequently," he said. "We're to the point now when we know that." Whether it is a police officer or a citizen who is in danger, a few minutes could mean life or death, he said, especially in the case of a medical emergency. "I think we've been pretty lucky in a taste," he said. "We haven't had a catastrose." Another of the association's requests involves the promotion of street offenses. BECAUSE HIGHER positions are office jobs, a street officer often has to choose between a promotion to an office job and having his job on patrol, Sampson said. But some officers have particular skills for working on patrol and they should not have to miss a promotion or be selected for which they are best suited, he said. "What is happening is that officers become disillusioned with the job and they start looking for jobs in other places," he said. The association's goal is to reduce staff turnover so it can retain more skilled officers. "It's not so much that we want more, we just want to be more competitive," Sampson said. 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