‘Catastrophic staffing shortage’: Northern California sheriff to suspend daytime patrols
TEHAMA COUNTY, Calif. — A Northern California sheriff’s office plans to suspend daytime patrols starting this week, citing “a catastrophic staffing shortage” throughout the agency.
The Tehama County Sheriff’s Office announced the suspension — which will start Sunday — in a news release stating that over the last several years there have been “difficulties with recruitment and retention of employees, which has been directly linked to pay disparities.”
Recent shortages led the Sheriff’s Office to reassign deputies from the operations division to fill vacancies within the courts and jail facility, leaving them “with insufficient staff to sustain 24-hour patrol services.”
Sheriff’s deputies in the county, which sits about 120 miles north of Sacramento, will maintain nighttime patrols. Deputies assigned night shift patrols “will triage and respond to the open,
