MORAVIA -- Cayuga County Sheriff's deputies started their shifts from a substation for the first time in years on Monday afternoon.

Deputies Tom Carbonaro, a 16-year veteran of the sheriff's office, Bernie Gallow, a 27-year veteran, and Joe Ryan, a four-year veteran, are all residents of southern Cayuga County and will start their shifts out of the southern Cayuga County substation in the Moravia Village Justice Center.

It can take 20 to 30 minutes to respond to a personal injury accident or a serious domestic incident from the Public Safety Building in Sennett, including going through all the lights in the city of Auburn, Gallow said.

"Believe me, Cayuga County is a long county," he said.

He welcomes the opportunity to work out of the Moravia substation. He has grandchildren in the village and he knows many of the children who live in the area. He also knows the area well because he is a part-time officer with the Moravia Village Police Department.

Sgt. Corey Colton will be in charge of the substation and will aim to spend part of his workday there. The sheriff's office will share a communal space with the Moravia Village Police Department and have its own private room to conduct interviews confidentially.

Read the full report in Tuesday's edition of The Citizen.