Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Council at the monthly meeting seen on CSi Cable 67, unanimously approved hiring part-time licensed police officers for the city.

Jamestown Police will be hiring 4 part-time officers at a pay rate of $35 an hour, the same rate paid to the department’s off-duty security staff. The hours limited to a minimum of 16 hours per month, with a maximum of 32 hours per week. The part-time officers will not entitled to regular benefits.

Police Chief Scott Edinger says for the last several months the Police Department has been down as many as 8 officers for various reasons and that his officers are putting in over 200 hours a month.

Edinger says that the reduction of time and a half hours that the part-time officers will be on duty offset any additional costs of hiring extra staff.