This means though Incline may be 40 minutes away, it has access to a search and rescue team, detectives unit, crime law, Special Weapons and Tactics unit. The citizens get the best of both worlds. For those citizens who want to learn more, the office offers a voluntary Citizen's Academy, which teaches how and why law enforcement does what it does and how it does it. Both agencies run Drug Abuse Resistance Education programs in the schools along with gang prevention programs. Each school day, area schools generate a list of students who are absent without good reason and forward it to the sheriff's department.
Deputies then go to the homes and check on the students.
In March, the School Attendance Review Board was scheduled to meet to discuss how to handle the problem, he said. In the future, there are good things on the way for the two primary law enforcement agencies, according to their leaders. By July, a new dispatch center that will consolidate law enforcement and emergency services dispatchers is expected to be built at the Incline substation. Then, within about two years, a new communications system complete with computer-aided dispatch and mobile display terminals in the vehicles will be in place. In Placer, the need for a new jail facility may be answered by a joint facility with Nevada County, Hawthorne said.