Daily News | Philadelphia lifts residency requirement for police and correctional officers amid staffing shortages
Mayor Jim Kenney said last week during a briefing on the city’s response to gun violence that the rule was hampering the Police Department’s ability to recruit.
The residency requirement was in place for about 50 years until 2008, when City Council passed legislation to lift it. Then in 2020 — just weeks after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a nationwide reckoning over race and policing — Council leaders backed a plan to reinstate it, saying “the idea that the city cannot recruit from within and find a ready, willing and able pool of police recruits is repugnant.
The 2020 law allows for the Civil Service Commission to grant exceptions to the residency requirement if the administration requests a waiver. City spokesperson Kevin Lessard said Kenney asked for the waiver last week to improve the Police Department’s ability to recruit.
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