Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar released a short statement on the governor s request. BCSO manpower including jailers will be utilized to maintain our current staffing needs, the statement said.
Salazar has been working to end a chronic staffing shortage and high overtime costs at the jail. Hiring bonuses and taking recruitment efforts on the road across Texas is part of that work.
Atascosa County Sheriff David Soward said he fully supports the governor, but there is a staffing shortage at his jail, too. Some of our jailers have to come in their days off so I m not so sure we could provide a lot of assistance to this program being that we re short-handed already, said Soward.
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Man critically wounded after chase ends in shooting on city’s Southwest Side
No law enforcement injured; chase ended near Allen Elementary School
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SAN ANTONIO – A 46-year-old man led law enforcement officers on a chase in Atascosa and Bexar counties Tuesday morning before he was shot near an elementary school, officials said.
The man was taken to a hospital in critical condition, said Deputy Johnny Garcia, a Bexar County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
Atascosa County Sheriff David Soward said the chase started around 10 a.m. in Pleasanton, where police tried to pull over a pickup truck to arrest the driver who was wanted on a parole violation for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.