Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is sending additional CHP officers to the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other regions of the state.

During a press conference in Sacramento, the governor cited the “successes” of CHP’s ongoing surge operations in Oakland, Bakersfield, and San Bernardino as a reason for expanding the agency’s law enforcement efforts statewide.

“It’s an extraordinary thing to walk the streets of Oakland and have people come up and say ‘Thank you’ to the California Highway Patrol,” Newsom said.

San Diego, the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, the Central Valley, Sacramento, and the San Francisco Bay Area will see additional CHP “crime suppression teams” in the coming weeks, according to a news release from Newsom’s press office. These teams will a

See Full Page