Middletown Hiring Police Officers

I read this in the classifieds today. Yes I was reading the Journal. It was the first time in months. And in fairness to me.. I only read the classifieds.
But I read this and thought I would post it here, we do need more cops on the street. I always thought it took more to be a cop, guess not.



SAFETY
POLICE OFFICER
City of Middletown
To establish an Eligibility List for the classification of Patrol Officer, the City of Middletown will be accepting applications and will conduct an open competitive examination. Salary range: $45,047 to $56,674 annually with excellent benefits. Minimum Requirements: High School Diploma or equivalent; U.S. Citizenship; possession of a valid Ohio Driver's License at time of appointment; and must be 21 years of age at time of appointment. Recruitment and selection process to include written examination, physical agility test, interview, polygraph, medical exam, drug test, and psychological exam. Written exam and physical agility test will be administered on September 26, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Application packets may be obtained in the
Personnel Office, second floor of the City Building, One Donham Plaza, Middletown, Ohio. Deadline to
submit application is Friday,
September 18, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
EOE/Drug-free Workplace.

That's a no vote for me also on any safety levy or renewal.

OK- Is this hiring to replace a cop who quit or retired or is this an addition to the force? If an addition, then when this safety levy was passed a year or two ago, I distinctly remember hearing that they needed the levy passed to MAINTAIN (no new hiring) the safety services as is-ie fire and police service. Now,(maybe) they want to hire an additional cop? If so, gee, you mean they didn't tell us voters the truth when we voted for their levy? Imagine that! All depends on if this is to maintain the numbers or to increase them. If an addition, I'll not vote for any new line of crap about "maintaining" the safety services again.

Thank you again for making this topic clear to us Major Hoffman. We ask these questions and do alot of "assuming" because we are not normally fully informed by the initial story.