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June 19, 2008

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Guard to stay in New Orleans through 2008

By Alan Sayre
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — At least 200 Louisiana National Guard troops will remain in New Orleans through 2008 for law enforcement duties as the city’s police department tries to rebuild ranks decimated by Hurricane Katrina.

Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday the current contingent of 360 troops would be phased down over the rest of the year, with at least 200 remaining to augment the police department, which lost 500 officers after the storm.

In the meantime, the department will continue a national recruiting drive to bolster the force to 1,600 officers. Police Superintendent Warren Riley said in coming months the department will graduate a recruit class of 45 to 48 officers, with another class about halfway through training.

The department currently has about 1,470 officers, down from 1,668 before the storm.

Troops were sent to New Orleans by then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco after Katrina. Since at least June 2006, they’ve helped patrol the city’s less-populated neighborhoods to allow the police to focus on curbing crime in other parts of the city.

Their presence here has consistently been extended, as police have continued fighting violent crime and requested more time to recruit and rebuild.

The Guard had been set to leave at the end of Blanco’s term, but Jindal, who took office in January, granted an extension until July. Riley and Mayor Ray Nagin later asked that the Guard’s presence be extended through the end of this year.

“We could not have kept the city safe and moved forward with the recovery without the presence of the guard,” Nagin said.

Jindal said the state was paying about $1 million a month to keep the Guard in New Orleans, and he expected that cost to be the same for the rest of the year. The governor said the money would come from an emergency fund and faces approval by a joint legislative budget committee.

Maj. Gen. Bennett C. Landreneau, head of the Louisiana National Guard, said some of the troops who had been stationed in the city had expressed interest in joining the police department. Combined with their military police training, they could become an accelerated rookie class in the future, he said.

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