Steamboat Springs Police Department needs more officers ‘no matter what’

Steamboat Springs Police Department needs more officers ‘no matter what’

Steamboat Springs Police are seeking to reshuffle their ranks with the addition of two sworn police officers next year as the department seeks to tamp down overtime hours and keep pace with the city’s population growth. On average, the department’s 47 employees, including its sworn officers, have worked 42.29 hours per week this year, according Chief of Police Mark Beckett, a regimen he said is “unacceptable.” “That’s basically a six-day work we…