Racheal Cain testifying Thursday in Hartford.
When officers leave New Haven for the suburbs — as dozens have been — the city is losing an average of $31,600 in the cost of training them. (Their new employers generally assume that cost.) Assistant Police Chief Racheal Cain traveled to Hartford Thursday to ask state legislators to help ease that burden by passing a law to require cops who leave the department within five years of obtaining certification to reimburse the city for training costs; the current law sets the limit for reimbursement at two years.
Cain made the case for the proposal, Senate Bill 789, at a hearing of the General Assembly’s Public Safety & Security Committee. Click here to watch her testimony and her responses to questions from the committee (beginning at the 4:54:30 mark).
The text of her testimony making the case for the bill is reproduced below.
