Pay Raise Planned for Longview Police

LONGVIEW — The Longview Police Department will soon get a pay raise. According to KETK, in addition to a proposed 3 percent raise across the board for city employees, Longview could look to Tyler Police as an example of how to bolster police ranks with bigger wage increases for officers. As work continues on the next budget, City Manager David Willard said Longview is considering a pay structure similar to that of the Tyler Police Department, increasing salaries for every officer, with the largest raises going to officers with more than seven years of experience.

“It would cost $1,187,724 for us to go to this plan, at a net cost of $781,917 because we’d already asked department heads to build a 3 percent pay raise into their budgets,” he said. “There’s already money in the proposed police budget (for a pay raise). So, in lieu of the 3 percent across-the-board raise, the police department would go to this new structure.”