{"id":21939,"date":"2026-04-27T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:01:10","slug":"calgary-police-10k-incentive-nets-32-applicants-amid-staffing-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21939\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary police $10K incentive nets 32 applicants amid staffing crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A $10,000 hiring incentive introduced in December to attract experienced officers to the Calgary Police Service<\/a> brought in 32 applicants.<\/p>\n

Nine of those applicants have been selected for the service\u2019s spring class as part of the Direct Entry Officers program, to begin in May.<\/p>\n

The Direct Entry Officer (DEO) program is a streamlined recruitment program<\/a> aimed at attracting experienced officers to join the Calgary police service<\/a>. Unlike the training regiment for inexperienced recruits, which can take up to nine months to complete, experienced officers only need to undergo a seven-week training program and if successfully recruited would be eligible to earn $10,000 on top of their salary.<\/p>\n

In order to be eligible<\/a> for the incentive, an officer must have successfully undergone the direct entry program and then remain on the force for at least two years.<\/p>\n

Recruits from the spring class will be the first officers to receive the incentive, according to the Calgary police.<\/p>\n

An emailed statement shared that police have noticed \u201can increase in interest in our DEO program since the incentive was introduced,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cHowever, recruitment activity is influenced by a range of factors, including seasonal trends and broader recruitment and marketing efforts, rather than any single initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n

The selection process for the fall class is currently underway and applications are open until July 31.<\/p>\n

The incentive was introduced in December of last year to make joining the Calgary police force that more lucrative over its competitors, in a national pool challenged by staffing and recruitment constraints.<\/p>\n

In a December interview with the Calgary Herald<\/a>, Calgary Police Chief Katie McLellan stated that staffing challenges remains top of priority when going into the next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t have a healthy membership, we don\u2019t have healthy deployment models and healthy investigators,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A police commission report in September 2025 found that 19 per cent of CPS officers were either on leave or removed from their usual tasks<\/a>, many of which due to mental or physical injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A $10,000 hiring incentive introduced in December to attract experienced officers to the Calgary Police Service brought in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[51,341,10930,10932,10931],"class_list":["post-21939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-police-service","tag-incentive-program","tag-recruitment","tag-spring-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}