MESSAGE FROM UNDERSHERIFF

UNDERSHERIFF

During this last year, the Sheriff’s Office management team completed a team-building exercise. During this exercise, managers identified all the important issues facing the Sheriff’s Office from attrition to recruitment and retention, technological demands, budgetary issues, and the challenge of maintaining minimum staffing during the pandemic. Knowing that to successfully achieve our desired results, we needed to identify and focus on one key issue. The issue we selected was employee wellness.

As managers, we have seen our employees seriously injured at alarming rates coupled with the psychological tolls that have breached through all areas of the Sheriff’s Office. Although faced with these calamities, we have stood tall and provided professional, compassionate service to our communities. At the same time, we need to take care of our employees and our concentration on employee wellness is the first step in this goal.

In the future, the Sheriff’s Office will provide innovative approaches in employee wellness starting with a custody and patrol supervisors’ teambuilding exercise with a focus on employee wellness. Psychological services and family support ideas are being considered.

OUR EMPLOYEES ARE OUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE, AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO PRIORITIZING EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING. I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO THIS ORGANIZATION.

We have the greatest concentration of sworn and civilian law enforcement professionals anywhere, and I am proud to be a member of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office.

JIM VOGE

San Luis Obispo County Undersheriff