Michigan is on track to get dozens of new state police troopers in October.
Michigan's Trooper Recruit School just got under way. About 90 recruits are enrolled, and another 90 are expected to start training in October.
This year's crop of recruits is larger than in recent years. But the number of new troopers still won't outpace the number expected to retire.
"It may give us a slight uptick, but it's pretty much going to keep us pretty much at the same level when we look at the number of people we have eligible for retirement, we're losing quite a lot of people over the next few years," said Michigan State Police spokeswoman Shannon Banner.
Michigan currently has just over 900 troopers stationed at 29 posts around the state. That compares with about 1,300 a decade ago.
