The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office reports it slashed a $1.8 million budget deficit by more than half in 2017.

Sheriff Mark Lamb said balancing the budget was one of the top priorities when he took office last January.

“We took a business approach to it,” Lamb said. “We came in and we looked at the effectiveness of every position, and once we started to getting an idea and a feel for that, we started doing some restructuring.”

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