Posted on 11/13/2022 6:35:44 AM PST by george76
A Northern California sheriff’s office is cutting daytime patrols throughout its entire county due to a “catastrophic” staffing shortage.
The Tehama County Sheriff’s Office said this week it would suspend all daytime patrols beginning Nov. 20, because it does not have enough staff to police around the clock.
Instead, the sheriff’s office will patrol the county that lies north of Sacramento near the Oregon border during the night hours, and the California Highway Patrol will respond to emergencies during the day.
“Most recently, staffing shortages in the custody division have forced the sheriff’s office to reassign deputies from the operations division to fill vacancies within the courts and jail facility,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a statement. “This unfortunate, but necessary restructuring has left the operations division with insufficient staff to sustain 24-hour patrol services.”
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Tehama County Deputy Sheriff’s Association said that it has warned the county board for years to address staffing shortages within the department, to no avail.
“Rather than take swift and decisive action, they have delayed and allowed too many good employees to leave,” the union wrote. “Several housing units within the Jail have been shut down, the Dispatch Center was temporarily shut down and now Dayshift Patrol will be shut down.”
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Obviously, response times are going to be affected,” Bakken said. “And we’ve made the decisions to limit, as much as we can, the dangers to public safety. But not having deputies on the streets, obviously, is not beneficial to the public.”
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Having spent 33 years in law enforcement.
I don’t advise anybody to go into the profession and more.
People will begin to arm up even if its only clubs knives or bats.
Those aren’t yet outlawed in California, yet.
I was reading a story earlier about 3 poor cops who were being shot at and when they returned fire accidentally hit and killed a little girl.
They are going to jail. Now cops cant even fire back when being shot at.
“Obviously, response times are going to be affected,”
Embrace the suck.
Southern Prepper 1 reported this yesterday in one of his Boots on the Ground reports. He gets frequent updates from around the country documenting food and fuel shortages, the ravages of inflation, etc.: https://youtube.com/user/southernprepper1
Good videos with reliable info!
Apparently cali voters prefer supporting criminals by voting for politicians that can make it happen. “You get what the majority votes for” is as true today as it ever was. If only we were a Republic and not a democracy. Not pretty but pretty simple. Thank you for your 33 years. Stay safe.
I thank the LORD ALMIGHTY that hubby and I never settled in Crazafornia and came to TEXAS instead.
Yep- my husband is former LE, worked a one man patrol car in Atlanta in the mid 1970s.
Don’t do it. Just don’t. Find a safe place for you and your family to live and uphold the law.
“Having spent 33 years in law enforcement.
I don’t advise anybody to go into the profession and more.”
Why on earth would anyone want to go into being a policeman??? You take a horrible chance on getting sued and or get put in jail for heaven only knows how many years for a small infraction of what ever those who DO NOT SUPPORT YOU IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DEEM. All I can say is GOD BLESS EACH AND EVERY PERSON IN THE POLICE PROFESSION.
Philly to California..Hold my beer.
Philly suburb..
CALIFORNIA Deputies will no longer patrol in daylight hours in this Northern California county
Daytime patrols by sheriff’s deputies are set to end Nov. 20 in Tehama County in Northern California as officials grapple with a “catastrophic” shortage of deputies. Officials are negotiating with the California Highway Patrol to respond to daytime emergency calls, Sheriff Dave Hencratt said in a Monday, Nov. 7, news release.
Deputies will continue to patrol and respond to emergencies at night, and also will try to respond to any daytime non-emergency calls, the release said. Tehama County, which contains the city of Red Bluff, straddles Interstate 5 south of Redding and Lake Shasta. It has a population of 65,000 people.
Hencratt blamed the decision on “a catastrophic staffing shortage throughout the agency.” Pay disparities have created a “drastic rise in attrition” and hindered efforts to recruit new deputies, he said in the release.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article268568552.html#storylink=cpy
With chaos comes opportunity
Seriously, there are probably some local criminals the law hasn’t been able to get rid of and at this point it might be possible to do something about it
Can’t wait to see how this works out.
Where I live, we don’t really need the police that much. We’re all fairly well armed and know what to do when things go south. We tend to handle it ourselves. In fact, in the 11 years I’ve lived here, the only time I ever saw a sheriff or policeman anywhere near my home was the day my neighbors cattle got loose on my land.
This is part of the Democrat plan: create conditions that call for Marshall Law.
I don’t advise anybody to go into the profession and more.
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