{"id":66849,"date":"2015-09-29T17:31:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=66849"},"modified":"2015-09-29T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T00:40:42","slug":"lasd-struggling-to-hire-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/09\/29\/lasd-struggling-to-hire-deputies\/","title":{"rendered":"LASD struggling to hire deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LASD-badge-and-patch-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-66850\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LASD-badge-and-patch-small.jpg\" alt=\"LASD badge and patch small\" width=\"288\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is struggling to hire all the deputies it needs and isn&#8217;t prepared to further increase patrols in unincorporated areas, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan to hire an additional 67 deputies to beef up patrols, at a cost of $11.6 million. Funding for another 56 deputies was mentioned as a possible second phase of the plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not prudent for the department to move forward with the Phase II implementation due to the extraordinarily high sworn staffing vacancies,&#8221; Sheriff Jim McDonnell wrote in a report to the board.<\/p>\n<p>The department&#8217;s goals for response times are 10 minutes for emergency calls, 20 minutes for priority calls and 60 minutes for routine calls, according to spokeswoman Nicole Nishida.<\/p>\n<p>Routine call times to residents living in unincorporated areas of Lancaster and Palmdale average 70 and 80 minutes, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell acknowledged that more could be done to improve service, but not until the department fills more of its 584 deputy vacancies.<\/p>\n<p>That total represents about 5 percent of the department&#8217;s total sworn personnel, Assistant Sheriff Todd Rogers told the board.<\/p>\n<p>Recruiters are also working to diversify the force by hiring more women and minorities, using social media and other new tactics to try and reach applicants.<\/p>\n<p>It takes roughly eight months to bring a new deputy on board, from the time of application through background checks, testing and medical and psychological evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the department manages the workload through overtime and a pilot program utilizing part-time deputies in county courtrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisors Don Knabe and Hilda Solis called for the department to set a target date for full staffing and report back on possible solutions to the hiring problem, including potential &#8220;structural changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The board unanimously approved that motion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; The Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is struggling to hire all the deputies it needs and isn&#8217;t prepared to further increase patrols in unincorporated areas, officials said Tuesday. Last year, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan to hire an additional 67 deputies to beef up patrols, at a cost of $11.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":66850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}