Crime & Safety
Will the POP Officer Return to Rosemont?
The sheriff's department received a $21 million grant but can't use it to bring back crime-prevention officers.
Rosemont used to receive some special attention from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department in the form of a Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) Officer, whose job was to focus on preventing crimes by addressing the causes.
That officer has been reassigned, the result of massive budget cuts that hit county law enforcement in recent years and forced hundreds of layoffs.
So when the sheriff's department received a federal grant in September for more than $21 million and promised to hire 50 deputies, some Rosemont residents wondered: Will the POP officer return?
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Will the sheriff's department use its $21 million grant to bring a crime-prevention officer back to Rosemont?
Short answer:No.
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"The provisions of the COPS grant we received specified the deputies hired must go to augment patrol, not POP programs," sheriff's spokesman Tim Curran said in an e-mail.
The good news:Out of the 50 deputies hired by the grant, four were assigned to the East Division, which patrols Rosemont and other nearby areas, Curran said. One hire filled a position that had been left vacant, and three were new patrol deputies.
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