Ten more officers will be added to Dover’s police force.
The Dover city council voted 7-to-1 to spend a more than a million dollars with another $4 million over the next five fiscal years.
This will bring the total number of officers on the force to 102.
But it is not clear where the funding will come from.
Dover Police Chief Paul Bernat that the request comes in the face of a recent increase in violent crime that hit Delaware’s capital last year.
He has also said that the city’s current number of police is low compared to cities like Annapolis, Salisbury and Wilmington.
Bernat told the Wilmington News Journal that he was trying to make sure the city was “not behind the 8-ball.”
