‘It’s never been like this’: Watertown police chief talks shortage of officers, applicants (2024)

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    Ben Muir

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WATERTOWN — Charles P. Donoghue, chief of the Watertown Police Department, has never seen a shortage of officers and qualified applicants like there is now in his department.

The Watertown Police Department budgets for 72 officers, but now has 60. The department just added five positions, but those haven’t been filled.

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