This week, 75 new Philly Police officers are headed to the 'most challenging area of Philadelphia,' Kensington, as they expect the unexpected.
More than 70 new Philadelphia police officers who just graduated from the academy, will be on the ground to enforce public safety in Kensington this week.FOX 29’s Gregory Payne spoke to one of the new officers and the deputy police commissioner leading the charge in bringing change to Kensington.Though drug use still remains out in the open in the streets of Kensington, Philadelphia police say change is on the horizon.
"We can come in and just hold the line and arrest everyone right, but that doesn’t serve the vast majority of the people that are suffering," said Deputy Police Commissioner Pedro Rosario. It’s definitely going to be quite the task for those officers to try and clean up Kensington, but it’s a task these recruits told FOX 29 they want to pursue. Some of them even say it’s their reason for becoming a police officer.
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