SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Among the many changes the city of San Diego is considering to close a more than $250 million budget deficit is a proposal to shut down the San Diego Police Department’s Northwestern Division and merge it with other branches.
The decommissioning of the division, which serves North City communities like Carmel Valley and Sorrento Valley, was one of a handful of measures pitched to shave down the department’s overhead while preserving core services.
However, under Mayor Todd Gloria’s draft budget proposal released earlier this month, the department will see a budget increase of $23 million.
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SDPD says most of the officers currently assigned to the division would be relocated to the Northeastern Division in Rancho Peñasquitos and the Northern Division in University City under the proposal, although they would continue patrolling their same areas…