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"Too many drug dealers and not enough cops to catch them is just one of a few staffing issues that Albuquerque police management said could lead to merging squads.According to staffing records Action 7 News obtained from Albuquerque police, since 2007 the street-level narcotics team has gone from 20 full-time\u00A0officers\u00A0to less than a dozen.Sources within the Albuquerque Police Department who did not want to go on record out of fear of losing their jobs said this is a big problem. But APD brass said it's not a huge concern.\"They are busy, but I don't see that there's a cause for concern over it,\" APD Commander William Roseman said.APD argued it has 17 additional narcotics cops who handle big-time federal drug busts. That brings the total narcotics squad to 28 full-time employees.But officers who spoke to Action 7 News questioned why the property crime unit has 39 full-time officers when it's usually drug addicts who commit break-ins.\"They do steal, to\u00A0fuel\u00A0their drug problem,\" Roseman said.\u00A0\"Right now we encompass more calls for service, and more crimes that we have to investigate and look at.\"Roseman said APD needs at least 200 to 300 more officers to fill the needs of the entire department. But with only a dozen or so people signing up to serve, they just don't have enough bodies.APD is considering merging the vice and narcotics squads."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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