LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - The Lubbock Police Department welcomes 13 new officers after the Police Academy graduation Friday evening. Even with these new officers, LPD is still nearly 50 officers short of what they should have.
The class started off with 20 recruits but only 13 made it through the academy, bringing LPD’s total to 374 sworn officers. That’s 48 shy of the 422 authorized amount of officers the city should have.
“More and more folks are coming to Lubbock all the time, and as they do that the department has to grow too so …