A local shortage of law enforcement officers, reflective of a nationwide problem, means the three-way partnership of the Statesboro-Bulloch County Crime Suppression Team is being placed on hiatus. Each agency — the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office, the Statesboro Police Department and the Georgia Southern University Police Department — has experienced the crunch of being short-staffed and are focusing efforts on crime in their own jurisdictions for now, said Bulloch County Sheriff Noel Brown. “The Crime Suppression Team (as a partnership) is suspended for now,” he said, adding that the problem arose before he took office in January.