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Commissioners press for clarity on jail staffing as staff scale opening of new law enforcement center
Summary
County staff scaled an earlier 50+ staffing request down to 27 positions needed to open two pods in the new law enforcement center, but commissioners pressed for timelines, training capacity and clear cost projections before approving new recurring personnel.
Pender County staff presented a staffing plan to open the first pods of the county's new law enforcement center and asked the board to consider hiring a mix of detention officers, patrol deputies and detectives to bring the facility into initial operation.
Captain Strickland, who led the jail planning, described a phased opening that would start with two pods (bringing beds from 92 to an initial 136) rather than staffing the new facility at full capacity immediately. The scaled request reduces an earlier 50-plus ask to roughly 27 positions to achieve a…
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