The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors this week approved 34 positions that will be added to the Office of the Sheriff budget.
The positions cover 29 deputy sheriffs and five sergeants. The Sheriff’s Office requested the positions to increase police services in under-resourced county communities.
“These positions will provide increased services in the most underserved areas of the county,” said Contra Costa County Sheriff David Livingston. “The deputies will specifically address quality of life concerns, develop partnerships and relationships with community members, and decrease response times by increasing the number of patrol cars in the community.”
The deputy sheriff positions will all be assigned to county patrol. Four of those positions will be detectives, one assigned to each of our four county station houses to handle investigations. The new sergeants will provide supervision for the new deputy sheriffs.
The Sheriff’s Office plans to roll out the positions in the new fiscal year. Nine new deputy sheriffs and one sergeant will start on July 1, 2022; the remainder of the positions will be filled by July 1, 2023, with additional deployments throughout the fiscal year.
Besides the 34 positions, the Sheriff’s Office also requested two additional deputy sheriff positions for Mental Health Evaluation Teams who would be funded by the Community Corrections Partnership.
“The addition of these deputy sheriff and sergeant positions is in line with my highest priority when I was elected Sheriff in 2010: keeping Contra Costa families safe,” said Sheriff David Livingston.
Living in one of those areas served by the sheriff, we welcome this ‘funding of police’.
I think people are finally seeing through the defund the police movement and see what havoc at his brought. Not even people in the inner cities wanted it. Seemed to be the idea of elite white liberal Democrats….. Not the people.
Glad to hear, I live in the county and home burglaries happen every week.
And you think a few more deputies on patrol will prevent burglaries? Good luck with that.
Nice move just before an election.
I hate politicians.
Exactly.
I was going to say the same thing. Show the voters that you are actually doing some work just before the election.
Agree
So what are the under-resourced county communities?
Concord.
Dr. JFinger,
Likely Crockett, Rodeo, North Richmond and unincorporated portions of East County.
I know them well.
108RS
Thanks Jff
We’ve gotten used to no cops way out here in the Delta… we don’t even get mail service…. we have to drive to the post office to get our mail. The closest fire dept. is out on Cypress Rd. in Oakley and the place has sat empty for 3 years because they couldn’t (or wouldn’t ) cough up the money to staff it. If we catch fire it takes at least 20 minutes to get help. It’s like… screw us guys!
At this point in time we are all under served.
It’s not going to do any good until
DA Becton is gone.
Catch and release.
+1
I hear that from application thru all training to the point where a deputy works the street by themselves can take about 2 years????
108RS, is that about right????????
New Deputies almost always start in the jail after completing POST.
In the early days of this millennium, Contra Costa County went several years without even having a POST class. And when they finally did have a POST class, when it was time for graduation, they announced that Contra Costa County would have no jobs for the graduates. So, everyone who passed the class was able to go to work anywhere in the state and get paid as a trained transfer instead of a rookie.
The academy is approximately 4 months long and the Field Training Program is also about 4 months long so if you were working for a municipal police department or you work for a county with correctional officers it is about 8 months to achieve the minimum about of training to be on your own.
I believe what you’re referring to is from the moment you complete your application to the point where you have completed the Field Training Program can take between year to 18 months and that is if the agency is moving with haste. There are a lot of hoops you have to jump through; you will have several interviews, medical examination, psychological evaluations, polygraph examination, background vetting, when is the next academy scheduled etc etc etc.
When they say “new” what they mean is they are going to move a season deputy from what ever assignment they are currently on to patrol. The FNGs (F’ing new guy or girl) are going to the jail to do their time in custody.
There has been a dead deer on Ygnacio Valley road for a long time..
heading towards downtown WC just before Tampico..
If you call it in, you will hear of their shortages due to Covid. That excuse is way too old!
Ant B: Gotta admit i learned what to do from a friend
Tie a helium balloon to its hoof reading “get well soon” it seems to get peoples attention
It should be good deer jerky by this time, call the food bank.
Oh well…. carrion!
@Dr Jellyfinger….I’m not carrying it anywhere!
I believe deputies have to work in the jails and the courts before working the streets.
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As Flo would say, “KISS MY GRITS!”
NOT “just before the election.” The sheriff asked the measure x taskforce for funding for these cops over a year ago. They only gave him money for body cams. He went back to the board this year and got the 30 deputies. On top of the 40-something deputies he added two years ago. Get your facts straight.
(Agree with the comment on the DA’s catch and release policy though but that impacts the sheriff and all the city police departments. Remember her saying looting in WC was okay if they said they needed the stuff they stole?)
Why do you have to be a member of the sheriff’s posse to get a concealed carry permit? And what is the sheriff’s plan to implement “shall issue” concealed carry permits when the NYPRA vs Bruen case issues in a few weeks?