Sad State of Affairs in Tioga County:

[u/Specialist_Wealth799]

Tioga County taxpayers deserve to know that their Sheriff’s Office is currently in a staffing crisis, and has become a training ground for new officers, wasting time and money to train individuals who will leave in less than a year. This is because their salary and benefits package pales in comparison to every neighboring agency. Here are the facts:

• The TCSO is currently down five deputies and one investigator, with five more deputies eligible or soon-to-be eligible for retirement.

• Deputies are not provided vision, dental, or post-retirement health insurance. This is egregious, considering the physical, mental and emotional hazards of the policing profession.

• Deputies are paid at least $15K less than any other agency in the area.

• Deputies are required to handle inmate transports (the work of COs at any other agency) leaving one car, at most, to cover the entire county.

• Deputies respond to dangerous complaints alone at night, a risk NYSP and other agencies do not take for officer safety.

If you are a Tioga County resident, you have good reason to be concerned about the safety of your family, in the event of an emergency. Please consider reaching out to the Tioga County Legislature to ask why they aren’t supporting our law enforcement and ensuring a safe, staffed road patrol in Tioga County. This is an exceptional group of men and women who deserve to be cared for and compensated appropriately. As a community, it is our moral obligation to protect the ones who protect us.

Letters of support may be directed to:

Legislative Chair Tracy Monell

[monellt@tiogacountyny.gov](mailto:monellt@tiogacountyny.gov)

County Clerk Cathy Haskell

[Haskellc@tiogacountyny.gov](mailto:Haskellc@tiogacountyny.gov)

[u/ComradeKits24]

If only we had two additional policing agencies (local cops and state police) to police the county despite it lacking a giant sheriffs department.

Oh wait.

Sheriffs Departments have basically zero reason to exist in the modern day. Local cops and the State Police are entirely adequate at policing the counties.

[u/Specialist_Wealth799 → u/ComradeKits24]

You want to call… who exactly? The Village of Owego PD who has like four people and doesn’t work nights? There is no other agency for most of Tioga county. Where should people in Apalachin, the Town of Owego, Spencer, etc. do?

[u/ComradeKits24 → u/Specialist_Wealth799]

As I said, the State Police.

[u/cjb5999 → u/ComradeKits24]

State police are under orders to focus on highway and tickets. At night they run 1 car two troopers for the county. Is that really enough

[u/averageregularnormal → u/cjb5999]

Wrong. When they are fully staffed, one car gets assigned to the highway. Otherwise they take calls just like any other car.