Long Beach : Despite Opposition, Council to Replace Sheriff’s Deputies
Pleas by Councilman Warren Harwood and more than 100 residents to keep sheriff’s deputies patrolling north and northeast Long Beach were rejected by the City Council on Tuesday.
The city hired the deputies in 1990 to bolster the city’s understaffed Police Department. They were not intended to be permanent, but since then, some residents have praised the deputies’ work and urged city officials to keep them.
But the council decided last year to hire 49 police officers to replace the deputies this July. City officials said that the deputies performed well but that they preferred to hire officers who would be under the direct control of Police Chief William C. Ellis.
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