The Saginaw Police Department is about to hire 10 new officers.
Saginaw is one of 253 departments statewide and more than 7,000 nationally to receive federal stimulus dollars, awarded in late July to cities with the “poorest fiscal health” and “highest levels of crime,” said Gilbert Moore, spokesman for the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

Saginaw Police Chief Gerald H. Cliff said the city will use the $1.12 million grant to hire five police officers, whose salaries will be subsidized by the grant for the next three years.
The …