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which pays salaries for law enforcement. We can have more staff than the Compensation Board approves but the county has to pay the cost for any extra help. For Compensation Board approval, the usual rule is one deputy per 2,000 population.
“I would like to see us have enough personnel for 24-hour, round the clock police service and for a fulltime investigator. But I will operate the department as efficiently as possible with the number of personnel I am alloted.
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