The backers of a ballot initiative that would tap the Portland Clean Energy Fund to hire police officers announced Monday that it had collected more than 62,000 signatures, well over the required 40,437 to get on the November ballot.

The backers of a ballot initiative that would tap the Portland Clean Energy Fund to hire police officers announced Monday that it had collected more than 62,000 signatures, well over the required 40,437 to get on the November ballot.