Solano supervisors consider plan to fortify Vallejo PD staffing with sheriff’s personnel

A perfect storm of bureaucratic dysfunction is threatening a plan two years in the making to bolster the badly understaffed Vallejo Police Department with deputies from the Solano County Sheriff’s Office.

A heavily reluctant sheriff’s deputies union, a lack of ready patrol cars, and an untimely ultimatum from the state’s retirement system thrust the plan into uncertainty just days ahead of a scheduled vote by the Solano County Board of Supervisors on the patrol agreement at its June 24 regular meeting.