Pomona’s Request for Sheriff’s Dept. Personnel Denied
The Sheriff’s Department has rejected the Pomona City Council’s request that it supply an interim police chief and an investigative team to look into allegations of corruption in city government.
Undersheriff Robert Edmonds said that lending an employee to head the Pomona Police Department would be disruptive to the Sheriff’s Department’s own operations. Any corruption investigation, he said, would be “more appropriately” handled by the district attorney.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney said the office has been reviewing allegations about Pomona city government for months but has not decided whether to open a full investigation. She refused to elaborate.
The Pomona City Council asked the Sheriff’s Department and the county grand jury last week to look into unspecified corruption allegations that have grown out of a city licensing investigation.
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