BERLIN — During the Berlin Police Department’s budget presentation Wednesday, Police Chief Daniel Buteau and Capt. Nathan Roy discussed the department’s substantial officer turnover in the past few years.

Roy in particular told the council that over the past four years, the department has had to replace 16 officers. Roy said the department is seeing turnover in part because people just don’t want to be police officers anymore. Before Roy's presentation, Buteau said police department employees experience the worst that society has to offer and more recently police departments and officers have come under attack from the media and the public.

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