Worried About Recruiting New Cops, Worcester Officials Consider Easing Age Restriction

Worried About Recruiting New Cops, Worcester Officials Consider Easing Age Restriction

Worcester officials are considering a proposal to increase the maximum age someone can begin as a city police officer because it's so much harder to recruit people to become police officers than it used to be.

"We used to have thousands of people take that exam, and now you have 300 Worcester residents," said Worcester's interim police chief, Paul Saucier, during a meeting last week of the city council's Public Safety Committee, according to a video of the meeting.