This all sounds familiar in my job - The Police service. Moral rock bottom, no experienced officers or supervisors in the front line and bloody civvies with not a single idea about the work we do attempting to manage/tick boxes/count stats/check our work.
I am a sergeant looking after a shift of uniform officers covering a town with a population of in excess of 130000 good people. At 1000pm yesterday I briefed a grand total of four officers that were the night shift for that town. A year ago it would have been up to 14 officers. I just keep my fingers crossed that tonight we do not have a bar-b-q at a fuel depot!
The plus side is that with such few officers it makes annual appraisals very easy!