March 4, 2008
Tulare County: “Officials ask for gang unit”
"I think [the new unit is] crucial," Williams said. "I think we have to apply whatever resources we can [to gang problems]."
Also in the works is a plan to train a dozen correctional deputies at Tulare County jails to become gang experts who would monitor the activities of inmates with gang ties — the majority inmates. They would gather intelligence for gang officers and identify "shot-callers" — inmates directing gang crimes from the jails.
Money for that program would come from the sheriff's department's existing budget, a supervisors report states.
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