The Tehama County Sheriff’s Office in Northern California is so strapped for staff, it won’t conduct patrols in the daytime starting Nov. 20.
“Over the past several years, the Sheriff’s Office has had difficulties with recruitment and retention of employees, which has been directly linked to pay disparities. A drastic rise in attrition coupled with the inability to present enticing recruitment efforts have resulted in an unprecedented staffing shortage,” the office wrote in a release this week.
The TCSO recently moved officers from the operations division to adequately staff the county jail and court. As such, daytime patrols are taking a hit.