Breed backs police retirement measure after spurning firefighters

After coming out against a proposal to lower firefighters’ retirement age, Mayor London Breed says she will support a separate ballot measure that would offer substantial retirement benefits to older police officers who stay on the force.

Breed told The Examiner in an interview last week she is backing the proposed reestablishment of a Deferred Retirement Option Program, commonly referred to as DROP, for San Francisco police officers. The measure, to be voted on in November as Proposition F, would give police officers an incentive to delay their retirements.

Backers see it as a way to address understaffing on the force by keeping officers on staff.

There are more than 100 officers eligible for retirement “waiting to see if something like this will actually pass,” Breed said, explaining her support for Prop. F. Given the department’s shortage of officers, she added, The City has to do whatever it can “to try to retain officers as long as we possibly can.”




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