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Vallejo police detail staffing gaps, push for coordinated response to trafficking and domestic violence
Summary
Vallejo Police reported March patrol and crime trends and outlined new community and victim-support efforts; council members and advocates urged standing agenda items, better outreach and a one-click resource for survivors as funding and program details are worked out.
Captain Jerome Bautista of the Vallejo Police Department presented the operations bureau report for March 2026, saying the department has 79 sworn officers (77 active, two inactive) and 41 officers assigned to patrol, with one officer currently in field training expected to go solo next week. "We currently have 41 officers on patrol and 1 on field training," Bautista said. He reported 12,614 calls for service and 6,075 incidents for March and said the city saw about a 50% drop in homicides and shootings while aggravated assault, simple assault and domestic-violence reports have increased.
The captain described a theft- and stolen-vehicle assessment broken down by beat, noting that Beats 1–2 and Beat 4 had high activity and identifying common vehicle types and timeframes. He…
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