San Diego County’s second-largest city needs more police officers, according to its top cop.
Chula Vista Police Chief Roxana Kennedy has been blunt about what she calls a “staffing challenge” — turnover among the department’s nearly 300 officers and the fewest officers per capita in the region, even as the city sees some of the area’s fastest population growth and continues to expand eastward.
“This department is going to have to grow at a very significant rate,” she said at a public meeting in July. “Right now we are the lowest staffed department in San Diego County.”…