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Patrol - South Lake Tahoe
9
Operations
The South Lake Tahoe Office is the largest
substation of the Sheriff's Office and is
supervised by five sergeants and one
lieutenant. South Lake Tahoe patrol staff are
responsible for responding to approximately
450 square miles of the East slope of El Dorado
County. The South Lake Tahoe Office also has
a patrol boat that is responsible for
approximately 54 square miles of Lake Tahoe.
The base elevation for this office is at 6250’
elevation and the mountain ranges around the
Lake Tahoe Basin exceed 10,000’ elevation.
The Lake Tahoe Basin has approximately 7,000
permanent county residents but the population
can swell to 200,000 during the summer months when outdoor activities are at their peak. In 2018, South Lake Tahoe Patrol
Deputies wrote 1314 reports and made 309
arrests. 157 of them were for felony violations
of law. Additionally, they issued 221 citations
and 74 of them were for misdemeanor level
violations.
Crime is not the only thing that keeps deputies
busy. Over 100 times in 2018, deputies
responded to encounters between bears and
people. These ranged from bears in houses or
cars to bears stealing picnic baskets and
coolers from beaches and campgrounds. Using
non-lethal bean bags fired from shotguns,
deputies regularly insert themselves between
bears and citizens and drive the offending bruins away to prevent injuries to anyone.
Deputies assigned are deeply engaged with the
community and can be found racing ducks at
Paradise Park in the spring to raise money for
youth serving organizations, or plunging in
Lake Tahoe in the winter as part of a Special
Olympics event.
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