Greg Wrigley’s Bio

Greg Wrigley has over 31 years of law enforcement experience, having recently retired as Undersheriff of the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office in Redding, CA. Greg started his law enforcement career as a Law Enforcement Ranger with the Whiskeytown Unit of the National Parks Service. He started his career with the Sheriff’s Office in the main jail where he served on the transition team for the new jail, developing policies and procedures that are in place to this date.

Greg served in the various patrol stations throughout the Redding area. He has served as a firearms instructor, baton instructor, self-defense instructor, dive team member, and K-9 handler. As sergeant, Greg was a patrol supervisor for the Burney Station. His ethical leadership, team building philosophies, and community orientation helped make the Burney Station the excellent station it is today. Greg was one of the original SWAT team members and served on the team for 23 years. He served as the SWAT commander for 5 1/2 years and was considered one of the finest tacticians in the Sheriff’s Office.

Greg received an Associate of Arts Degree in Fire Science from the Los Angeles College in 1978. He graduated from the National Park Service Academy in 1979 and the POST Basic Academy in 1980. He graduated from the FBI National Academy in 2003. His academic emphasis at the academy was on community policing and problem solving. Greg holds a basic, intermediate, advanced, supervisory, and management certificate from POST and has had well over 3,100 hours of training. He has contributed his expertise in policies and procedures by authoring numerous projects. Some of his accomplishments were; designing and implementing the Citizens Patrol and Citizens Patrol Academy, member of the Strategic Planning Committee, chairman of the Sheriff’s Office Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving Committee, project director and author of the Community Safety Plan, and author of the current Patrol Standards.

Greg is a firm believer that law enforcement officers should be involved in the communities they service. As such, he is a member of the Burney Rotary, the Sheriff’s Office Eastern Flying Posse, President of the Tri Counties Community Network, and has served on the Intermountain Action Growth and Education Committee (IMAGE) and the Intermountain Area Domestic Violence Coordinating Council.