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Vallejo police report staffing gains, improved response times and new task force to tackle abandoned vehicles
Summary
Police Chief Jason Tovaleo and Solano County Sheriff Brad Duwahl told the council the city’s priority response times have improved, staffing stands at about 77 sworn officers on full duty, and a new multi‑departmental ‘Vallejo CARES’ task force and revised tow contracts aim to cut the abandoned‑vehicle backlog.
Vallejo’s police chief told the City Council the department has rebuilt recruitment programs and is seeing measurable improvements in response times while the city continues to grapple with staffing and quality‑of‑life problems.
“Currently, we have a total sworn staffing of 79 … sworn working full duty brings us to 77,” Chief Jason Tovaleo said as he walked council through the March 2026 operations report. Tovaleo said patrol staffing, field‑training placements and academy graduates are part of a pipeline he and staff are trying to stabilize.
Tovaleo said the department is pursuing expanded recruitment and a revived Explorer and Cadet program, and working with external partners to bring roughly $200,000 to that pipeline effort. He said the department backgrounded roughly 96–97 recruits in recent years but that only about 20% of backgrounds progress to hire.
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