The sheriff of Tehama County (California) has announced in a statement that he is suspending daytime patrols. The reason given is the "catastrophic shortage of personnel." The county has been having problems recruiting new officers in recent years due to "salary disparities,” among other reasons.
"Unprecedented"
He then proceeded to explain that "over the past several years, the Sheriff's Office has had diffilcuties with employee recruitment and retention of employees, which has been directly linked to pay disparities. A drastic increase in attrition coupled with the inability to present attractive recruiting efforts have resulted in an unprecedented staffing shortage."
"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 facilities. This unfortunate but necessary restructuring has left the operations division with insufficient staff to sustain 24-hour patrol services," the release states.
