A sheriff's office in rural northern California cut daytime patrol over severe staffing issues, with residents reporting 'you’re on your own' in Tehama County.
Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith tells Ashley Strohmier about the urgent police shortages plaguing some California communities and forcing departments to end daytime patrols.is reporting it cannot rely on local police should a crisis hit due to staffing shortages that run so deep in the area that the sheriff’s office has canceled daytime patrols.
In November, the sheriff’s office canceled daytime patrols altogether, citing a"catastrophic staffing shortage" due to a"drastic rise in attrition, coupled with the inability to present enticing recruitment efforts.""We’ve never been in a position where we’ve [had] to suspend dayshift patrol," Sheriff David Kain told the outlet."I don’t know that people really recognize how agonizing this is.
"I moved to this county in 1978, and the first question I asked was, ‘What kind of service do you have in the rural areas?’" County Supervisor Bill Moule told CalMatters in December."The sheriff was kinda this big guy, been sheriff a long time. He looked at me and said, ‘Son, get yourself a shotgun and a dog.’ It’s no different today than it was in 1978.
FBI investigators at Rancho Tehama Elementary School in the small community of Rancho Tehama, California, where a gunman killed several people earlier this morning on Tuesday Nov. 14, 2017, in Corning, California. In 2017, Rancho Tehama was the scene of a series of shootings, including at an elementary school, carried out over two days by one gunman who ultimately committed suicide. The shootings left five people dead and 14 others injured. The incident still haunts many residents.
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