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Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office wants 80 more officers

By Jim Piggott - News4Jax and Erik Avanier - News4Jax
Published on June 9, 2023 at 12:00 pm
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There could be 80 more police officers on Jacksonville’s streets soon.

That is what Sheriff T.K. Waters is asking the new mayor and City Council to fund this coming year.

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Waters presented his budget to the current mayor’s staff who will pass it on to Mayor-elect Donna Deegan. The budget will be presented in July shortly after Deegan takes office.

Read the rest of this story at News4Jax, a Jacksonville Today news partner.

author image Jim Piggott covers city government and how it will affect the community. He has lived in Jacksonville for nearly 20 years and worked for WJKS, the former ABC affiliate in the city, before coming to WJXT in 1997. author image Erik is an award-winning broadcast and multimedia journalist with nearly 20 years of experience. He started as a reporter for News4Jax in 2017, having worked previously at WDEF, the CBS affiliate in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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