The SFPD is making no friends among the top brass of other Bay Area police departments, with their LED mobile billboard going right into other departments’ parking lots offering their cops higher pay to jump ship.
The San Francisco Police Department has been complaining for years that they are short-staffed. But staffing shortages are hobbling police departments all over the Bay Area, and really, across the entire country.
The SFPD decided to get cute this week in a move to recruit more officers, and in doing so, has other Bay Area police departments pretty outraged. The Chronicle reports that the SFPD put a mobile billboard in others police departments’ parking lots blaring a message that if they quit their jobs, SFPD will hire them and give them a raise.
SFPD’s Instagram posts on this are now deleted, but the screenshots (and resentment) remain. The mobile billboard in question is apparently nicknamed the “poach coach,” and broadcasts messages like “$192,072 top step pay + $5,000 signing bonus,” and “What are you waiting for?” And as you see above, SFPD had the nerve to plop this thing in the Fremont Police Department’s parking lot on Tuesday, and right smack-dab in front of the building’s entrance…