In rural northern California, residents feel neglected by officers – especially after they canceled daytime patrols
. Yet the area has been grappling with a law enforcement shortage so severe that the sheriff’s office in November suspended its daytime patrols entirely – for months.
. “When Redding police department says, ‘You know what, chief, we’re down officers’ – ‘Well, go down to Tehama county, go down the officer aisle and pick some,’ and that’s what they do. They’re cherry-picking our people.”The staffing shortage in Tehama county reached “crisis” levels last year, the office has said.
But Rancho Tehama has always been more neglected than other areas, residents say. Tehama county, home to 65,000 people, has two small city police forces, but rural areas receive services exclusively from the sheriff’s office or the California highway patrol. Residents of Rancho Tehama often make a point of saying the community is no different from anywhere else in the county.
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