SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — The Spokane County Sheriff's Office latest recruiting tactic is turning heads in several major western cities.

SCSO has launched a series of billboards in Portland, Seattle, and Denver that advertise a hefty bonus for sufficiently experienced officers.

"We put up billboards in Portland as close to the police precincts as we could get, saying '15 thousand dollar signing bonus. We're hiring 40 lateral deputies. We want you,'" said Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.


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