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Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office wants to expand its force as the county experiences explosive growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, 59 new Polk County sheriff\u2019s deputies were sworn in. It\u2019s the agency\u2019s single largest class of deputies.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sheriff Grady Judd said additional deputies are needed to maintain public safety. According to Judd, Polk County is experiencing a historically low crime rate, but expanding the force is needed because of the growth along the I-4 corridor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judd said deputies are responding to a higher number of calls for service, and there is a greater need for deputies in Polk County schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re having ample amount of law enforcement assigned to each one of the schools to keep the children safe, which is important. Plus the growth of 100,000 people in the last four years. The growth shows absolutely zero inclination to slow down,\u201d said Judd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office is offering new recruits several financial incentives, including a $3,000 monthly stipend while attending the academy. By July, the starting annual salary for a new deputy will increase from $58,474 to $61,158.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office wants to expand its force as the county experiences explosive growth. On Tuesday, 59 new Polk County sheriff\u2019s deputies were sworn in. It\u2019s the agency\u2019s single… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"23","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[8587],"class_list":["post-45756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner","tag-polk-sheriff-grady-judd-swears-in-59-new-deputies-but-needs-125-more"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}