{"id":116614,"date":"2022-01-06T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=116614"},"modified":"2022-01-06T11:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:50:28","slug":"oxford-mississippi-police-department-announces-salary-raises-for-all-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-police-department-announces-salary-raises-for-all-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Police Department Announces Salary Raises for All Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> Chief <strong>Jeff McCutchen<\/strong> announced today Mayor <strong>Robin Tannehill<\/strong> and the <strong>Oxford Board of Aldermen<\/strong> recently voted to adjust all salaries of employees at the police department. Those salary adjustments will go into effect on January 13, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been struggling like a lot of other law enforcement departments across this nation to recruit and retain qualified people. This is a major, major step forward in the right direction,\u201d said Chief McCutchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The salary&nbsp;adjustments&nbsp;will take starting salaries for non-certified officers to $46,213 and officers with experience up to $57,842. Certified officers looking to lateral to OPD will be compensated based on their experience and training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want to personally thank Mayor Tannehill and the Board of Aldermen in their continued&nbsp;avocation&nbsp;of law enforcement. We want applicants to know that the Oxford Police Department is supported by our city leaders and the community,\u201d said Chief McCutchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicants who wish to apply can go to the Jobs section of the <strong>City of Oxford<\/strong> website (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.oxfordms.net&amp;c=E,1,sUPIzXZcqdc_aFieAccLq00yd158nE6n7lT9cFV7YnHBhX0Qzcyf0_a7MHsDobwMo3NBqAFEfBzGozhbS3wzCuVhkBVO906ansfgOC6O3huGyBtl5QY,&amp;typo=1&amp;ancr_add=1\" target=\"_blank\">www.oxfordms.net<\/a>) or can contact OPD through social media or telephone if they have any questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford Police Department Chief Jeff McCutchen announced today Mayor Robin Tannehill and the Oxford Board of Aldermen recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":73285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[38,4379,12729,5,4,20184,20183],"class_list":["post-116614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-board-of-aldermen","tag-city-of-oxford","tag-jeff-mccutchen","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-robin-tannehill","tag-xford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-opd.jpg?fit=960%2C390&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}