SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Gavin Newsom, governor of the U.S. state of California, on Tuesday announced the plan to send 120 additional California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers to Oakland and the East Bay of San Francisco Bay Area to fight crimes such as carjacking, retail theft and violence.
The added officers will represent a nine-fold increase in the number of state police patrolling the region, according to Newsom's office. The officers will mainly get deployed in Oakland, where violent crime has surged.
