BY DAVE PRICE
Daily Post Editor
San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus got a big surprise last week.
Last Monday, she sent an email to her entire staff saying the criticism of her chief of staff, Victor Aenlle, is coming from a “select few.”
Later in the day, her deputies and sergeants voted overwhelmingly to declare they had no confidence in Aenlle. The vote was 306 in favor to 12 opposed.
Aenlle’s critics aren’t a few bad apples, they’re 96% of the sworn deputies who voted. Did she not know how her staff feels about Aenlle? How could she have missed this?
And, if you go by her email from last Monday, she feels Aenlle is innocent of all of the complaints filed by her employees. She says those complaints “simply are not true.” She didn’t say whether she investigated any of those complaints, however.
The complaints range from Aenlle berating employees in front of their colleagues to inserting himself into criminal investigations despite a lack of qualifications and experience. Aenlle was only a reserve deputy before Corpus elevated him to her inner circle when she was elected in 2022.
But Corpus won’t have the last word on this. The Board of Supervisors has hired retired judge and former San Jose police auditor LaDoris Cordell to investigate the complaints.
But oddly, Aenlle remains on the job during the investigation. Often police are put on paid leave during investigations. I guess the rules are different for him.
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