Sheriff's Substation posts 'most productive' year ever in 2009

A ramped up menu of special operations, including gang compliance, parole and probation checks, DUI roving patrol, and heavy focus on problem-oriented policing projects led the Fallbrook Sheriff’s Substation to having the “most productive year ever” in 2009, said Lt. Phil Brust.

“I’m proud of the fact that our patrol deputies made over 1,200 arrests in 2009; that’s the most arrests ever made in a single year here,” said Brust. In 2008, 1,107 arrests were made by deputies working the Fallbrook command area.

Reflecting on the composite of last year’s crime statistics, which Brust called prelimin...