The policy is intended to provide safety for our students, to act as a deterrent. |
We can't afford to lose any officers right now - we're so short manpower as it is. We don't want to lose any good people [in whom] the town has invested years of training and expense. |
We did a little bit better on wages that [were] offered to us, but we were not successful in getting the pension proposal that we were hoping for. |