As the Los Angeles Police Department struggles to hire more people to address an officer shortage, Mayor Karen Bass announced Thursday that she’s issuing an executive directive to shorten the hiring process and time for new LAPD recruits.

The department has been pushing to increase the number of sworn officers to above 9,000 after losing retiring employees and those who left the LAPD for better-paying police departments in Southern California.

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The executive order aims to remove "bureaucratic barriers” to shorten the time of hiring qualified candidates as the current process, which includes a written exam, extensive background check and polygraph test, could take several months.

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