SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore announced Thursday that he will not seek election to a fourth term in the post next year.
Gore, 73, whose current stint as sheriff ends in January 2023, said it had been “an honor and a privilege to serve the people of San Diego County.”
“I am grateful and humbled by the continued community support that I have received for the last 12 years,” he stated. “Being your sheriff is one of the most rewarding experiences of my law enforcement career rewarding primarily because of the extraordinary men and women in the department, who work tirelessly every day to keep San Diego the safest urban county in the nation.”
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When Kelly Martinez began her career with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department as a deputy in 1985, female deputies and their male counterparts were not always viewed as equally capable of the job.
Martinez and other female deputies got the same assignment out of the academy: the women’s Las Colinas Detention Facility in Santee. A year later, Martinez was among the first female deputies assigned to a men’s jail. She would work as a deputy for 22 years before rising through the ranks to assistant chief.
Now she is poised to make history again. On Friday, Feb. 26, the 36-year veteran of the force will become the first woman to serve as the department’s undersheriff, the second in command.
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