Police cannot afford to hire new officers recruited in nation-wide campaign

After running an expensive nation-wide recruitment campaign, the Czech police cannot afford to hire any new officers, the police human resources director Roman Fidler said on Friday. The campaign entitled “Serve and Protect”, which ran from April to June this year, cost around 20 million crowns, or nearly 1.2 million US dollars. Some 10,000 people applied but the police had to stop hiring new employees and return funds for the new positions due to budget cuts. The police will not hire any new officers but will only replace those who leave, Mr Fidler added.