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- A police department in a remote Minnesota town is facing a staff shortage.
- To stand out to potential hires, they are offering $3,800 Kevlar canoes to new and existing staff.
- They say it helps with relaxing after stressful days on the job.
The police department in the remote north woods Minnesota town of Ely faces the same challenges of recruiting and keeping new officers as countless other law enforcement agencies across the country. So it's offering a unique incentive: canoes.
Ely, a former mining and logging community that's best known as a gateway to the popular Boundary Waters Canoe Area, will provide free Kevlar canoes worth $3,800 to the next officers it hires — and to current employees.