FREMONT — A combination of Hayward Police officers working overtime and reassigned Alameda County sheriff’s deputies will be patrolling the streets of Fremont on Friday night through early Sunday morning, covering the shifts of local police who will be attending funeral services for Capt. Fred Bobbitt.

Bobbitt, a 32-year Fremont police veteran, died unexpectedly on Feb. 21, according to the department. He was 54.

For 32 hours — 10 p.m. Friday through 6 a.m. Sunday — Fremont officers who would normally be working will be given paid time while attending services being held to honor Bobbitt. Some of the services are being held in Fremont, and some in Tracy, where Bobbitt lived for the past three decades.

Bobbitt was a longtime police leader with deep ties to Fremont and other law enforcement agencies, and his services are expected to draw a lot of people, Fremont spokesperson Geneva Bosques said.

“For police funerals, this is extremely common,” Bosques said of handing patrol and dispatch responsibility off to other agencies. “But we haven’t had anything this large in a really long time,” she said.

Bosques said the 32-hour timeline is because the multiple funeral services will overlap with several different police shifts between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning, including some swing shifts and midnight shifts.

“It’s really to ensure that nobody is working with a lack of sleep, that everybody is in good shape,” she said.

Hayward, which typically acts as a backup dispatch center for Fremont, will be handling most of the dispatching duties, as well as providing officers, according to Bosques.

Hayward will send officers who volunteered to cover the Fremont shifts on overtime, said Cassondra Fovel, Hayward police spokeswoman.

“Officers that are already scheduled to work (in Hayward) would continue to work their normal shift,” she said.

Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern said in an interview Friday that his agency would be reassigning 23 deputies to help cover for Fremont. Some deputies that already patrol unincorporated areas of the county near Fremont’s borders will be sent into the city, and some who might normally work at a desk will be put on patrol.

Ahern said it’s possible there will be some deputies called in to work overtime to help backfill during the extra responsibilities, but he couldn’t say how many, or how much the operation will cost until afterward.

“We’re allowing the Fremont officers time to grieve. It’s a very emotional and stressful job being out on patrol, and we want to make sure that they can have the opportunity to grieve, and not feel like they’re missing out on an opportunity to show their condolences to the family and to the agency,” he said.

“We want to try to alleviate some of that pressure and assist the Fremont Police Department so they can show respect to a fine man who is gone too soon,” Ahern said.

The sheriff’s office will absorb the cost of the assignment, Ahern said, without “any exchange of funds” from Fremont. The assignment is being considered part of the county’s mutual aid agreement with police agencies, often used during disasters, or major events that require a large police response.

“You provide as many services to a city or county in need at the time, because you never know when you’re going to be the one in need of those services, and it happens quite frequently,” he said.

Though Ahern did not provide a cost estimate for the services, Lt. Ray Kelly, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said, it would be “minimal.”

“It’s really small in comparison to the welfare of the people that you’re looking out for and trying to care for. I don’t think you can put a price on the human side of this,” Kelly said.

Any Fremont officers who would normally be working over the weekend and are being paid while at the funeral services will be expected to be “duty ready,” or essentially on-call for emergencies, Bosques said.

In addition to those scheduled to work, some Fremont police staff will be paid because they are part of the funeral, including officers assigned to the “honor guard,” as well as motorcycle officers driving in the procession, Bosques said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how many police officers and community service officers would be scheduled to attend the funeral services, Bosques said.

Newark and Union City police officers will also be assisting Fremont with road closures for the procession, Bosques said.

A Time of Remembrance Service will be held at Fry Memorial in Tracy for Bobbitt from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, and a Celebration of Life Service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Harbor Light Church in Fremont. Both services will also be live-streamed. For more information about the services, click here.