Full-time staffing coming to Lake Hemet / Mountain Sheriff’s Sub-Station
LAKE HEMET — Sheriff Chad Bianco is pleased to announce the future planned re-opening and re-staffing of the Lake Hemet / Mountain Sub-Station located in the San Jacinto Mountains. This substation serves several communities including Idyllwild, Anza, Pine Cove, and Mountain Center.
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Deputies have not been specifically assigned to the Lake Hemet / Mountain Sub-Station for several years. This closure resulted in delayed response times for emergency situations, routine calls for service, and law enforcement back-up requests since deputies had to respond from the Hemet Station located in Valle Vista. Adverse mountain terrain, severe weather conditions, and narrow mountain roads also delayed deputies from responding from the valley in a timely and effective manner.
“This particular substation re-opening allows the deputies to be deployed directly in those mountain communities to respond quicker to calls for service and quality-of-life issues, and for those communities to know their assigned deputies,” explained Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
Sheriff Bianco has made it a priority to focus on community oriented policing strategies to improve the quality of life concerns for all residents. Beginning this summer, deputies and a community services officer, will be assigned to the Lake Hemet / Mountain Sub-Station allowing deputies to work hand-in-hand with the community. The community services officer will be assigned to the sub-station to take reports and answer questions to further our goal of engaging the community.
Sheriff Chad Bianco added, “Since my election, over the past year the department has been able to aggressively recruit, hire and train hundreds of deputy sheriffs and correctional deputies. This increase of needed personnel is the first step in finally allowing us to better serve all our unincorporated communities throughout the county. This particular substation re-opening allows the deputies to be deployed directly in those mountain communities to respond quicker to calls for service and quality-of-life issues, and for those communities to know their assigned deputies.”
Sheriff Bianco is grateful for Supervisor Chuck Washington’s continued support for increasing deputy staffing levels in our mountain communities. “Our mountain communities deserve the kind of attention and service that Sheriff Bianco is committed to providing, and I’m so appreciative that he’s taking this important step,” said Supervisor Chuck Washington, whose district includes the mountain areas. “I want the residents of those unincorporated communities to know that the Sheriff and I take their safety and quality of life seriously, and we are pleased to be able to re-open and re-staff this valuable station.”
Submitted by Riverside County Sheriff’s Department
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Trevor Montgomery, 48, moved in 2017 to the Intermountain area of Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source and Shasta County News Source. Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers, Valley News, (the now defunct) Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; as well as Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County and Mountain Echo in Shasta County.
Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg, breaking his back, and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor’s accident.)
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations; including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, and Lake Elsinore Station; along with other locations.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes.
Trevor has been married for more than 29 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his “fluid family” includes 13 children and 16 grandchildren.