Agreement to help address staffing at Merced County Sheriff's Office

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A caller statement aims to code staffing shortages astatine the Merced County Sheriff's Office.

The section has been sounding the alarm for months, adjacent telling radical to study definite non-violent crimes done an online portal owed to the deficiency of deputies.

On Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors agreed to caller presumption with the Deputy Sheriff's Association.

The woody includes accrued compensation to assistance support existent unit and to enlistee much deputies.

Sheriff Vern Warnke says portion of the occupation is losing employees to different departments that wage more.

He claims adjacent this caller statement is conscionable a impermanent fix.

"I'm not going to shy distant from it," helium said. "I'm outspoken -- conscionable tickled that they came to an statement with the DSA close now. But they've got a year. I'm figuring successful astir 8 months, they're going to person to fig this retired due to the fact that successful little than a year, they're going to person to beryllium renegotiating with lawman sheriff's, our custodial deputies, our dispatchers, the coroners, the full gamut. That everyone that wears this marque is going to beryllium affected."

Details of the fiscal statement person yet to beryllium made public, but Sheriff Warnke says it's acceptable to beryllium ratified by the lawman sheriff's relation connected May 4.