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Good evening, I'm part of the Chairman of the Coral and County Legislature. I'd like to welcome the community and our legislature to tonight's special meeting of the Coral and County Legislature.

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Anybody that is able to please stand so we can salute the flag.

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, for which it stands,

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one nation, under God, and he does all the liberty and injustice for all.

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The reason for tonight's special meeting is we have invited the sheriff's office

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to do a presentation to our community of some of the duties and responsibilities

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And services they offer our community, some of which you may be aware of, and some of which you may not.

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So I'd like to welcome Sheriff Mark Homes,

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Under Sheriff Budrig, Captain Robert Dirkson, and Captain Nicholas Lynch.

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I will turn over to Eric Malbehill for the procedures for tonight's meeting.

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As the Chairman indicated, and as you are aware, these proceedings are being streamed via the WebEx platform.

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In addition, we are also streaming this via our encoder platform with our minutes and agenda program.

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That will allow anybody that wants to watch this video after the fact to tune in.

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It will be on the county's website also on the sheriff's website, and that will be available for the public.

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If anybody has any written comments that they'd like to send in, they can do so by emailing

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s-hemstead at courtland-co.org, we'll be putting that email up on the screen or also

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under share of bud rig, b-rig, add courtland-co.org.

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We will continue to accept any input and comments beyond the seedlings presentation.

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We will be opening up for questions following the presentation, so we would just ask that if

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We have any questions, we'll hold all questions to the end of the presentation, and then

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we will take questions, and I believe the sheriff is prepared to answer as many, and we'll

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stay until everybody feels that they've got their questions in.

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But again, if you're not comfortable asking your question publicly when rather put it in writing,

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you can do so either on the chat feature here on the WebEx platform or again you can email

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those, and we will put that web address up momentarily.

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With that, I'd like to turn the presentation over to Cortland County Sheriff Mark Helms.

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Thank you.

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I'd like to just start my interest and introduce myself to the people who don't know who I am.

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I'm proud to say I'm the Sheriff of the Cortland County.

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My name is Mark Helms.

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I'm here with some of my administrative staff.

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We're looking forward to going through and giving a presentation.

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And when it comes to law enforcement, I think a lot of people know a little of what most of

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us do, but I don't think many people unless you're really involved in the system itself,

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really know what it is that we do in the whole.

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And especially as a sheriff's office, we're quite a bit different from, you know, your local police

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agency, state police, that sort of thing and what our duties are.

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So we're going to go into that and as far as myself, I started with a sheriff's office in October

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of 1987. I've been around for in a different capacity with the office for a long time.

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I'm currently in first year and my second term as a sheriff which the elections go every four years.

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As far as questions, just to make sure I can do this right. For anybody that's got questions tonight,

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what we'd like to do is if you could send them to the address on the screen there, one is

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going to be Deputy Clerk, Savannah.

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Hemstead is going to help us along with the undershare of blood rig.

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Obviously, the undershare of swimming here tonight, so he's not going to be getting them right

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away, so if you could for tonight's presentation, if you could send them to Savannah, that

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would be appreciated.

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We will try and answer as many questions as we can tonight.

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If by chance we get to the point where we cannot get to all of them, I will

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make sure that we do get back to everybody regardless, it just might not be on screen.

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And as far as, if you have something that comes up after we've talked, that you didn't feel

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comfortable bringing up or you just wanted to do later, obviously, these are the addresses

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you can send to us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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I'd like to start by first thanking all the people involved, I mean, you know, with all

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jobs that we do every day, adding something else is not always an easy task, so I appreciate

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my two captains, which I'm going to introduce you pretty quick, both got quite a bit of time

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into putting this power point together and the different things so that we make sure that we're

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we're not going to be able to go over everything and great in depth, but I want to make sure

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that everybody's aware of as much as what we do as we possibly can. I also want to thank Eric

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of a hill in Savannah for helping us out and setting us up with the equipment so that we could

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do this for everybody tonight. On top of that, I appreciate Chairman Heiter was a great help

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with helping to get this together for us, not to mention Susan Wilson and of course the rest

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of the legislature, but most of all the public that's joined us tonight that was interested

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to see what it is that we have to say, I appreciate all that.

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As far as the Sheriff's Office of Administration, basically here is our core group.

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Obviously, you got my self, you got under Sheriff Bloodrig.

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The captain of the rope troll is Rob Durkson.

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The captain of the Corrections Division is Nick Lynch.

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The rope troll, Lieutenant, is Gary Williams.

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The criminal division, Lieutenant, is Chad Burhans and the corrections, Lieutenant, is Chris Keeler.

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These are the core administration of the sheriff's office.

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I like to start out a lot when it comes to this map.

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I don't think that people understand the amount of ground that the sheriff's office has to cover in any given day or shift.

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Normally, we will have three officers on a good day, maybe as many as five, to patrol

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500 or two square miles.

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With that said, I mean, we're lucky we're one of the counties in the state that's fairly

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square, so as far as a set up, we have a great benefit that way, but with the rural area

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in the amount of county miles that we patrol, I don't think people understand to the extent

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of how we truly do our jobs.

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I mean there's 15 towns, three villages,

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and one city in the county of Portland.

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With those, every town has a court,

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so we've got different municipalities

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that we have to be paying attention to

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for different local laws, that sort of thing.

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And it's, although it makes it very interesting for us,

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it is quite a vast area to cover

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when you've only got three people on most of the time.

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We're surrounded by seven other counties, obviously most people know those, but I'll

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list them out.

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We surrounded by Anadaga, Madison, Shinango, Brume, Tayoga, Tompkins, and Kiyuga.

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I think I got them all there.

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But probably a lot of our traffic is coming from the bigger cities coming from Anadaga,

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and Syracuse and broom down in Binghamton, but I just like people to see that map just because

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it's quite a bit an area to cover with a short amount of people.

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I'm not real good with this

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clicker, so this is going to be interesting. I wanted to go over the demographics of the county,

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like I said before, there's 500-2 square miles within the county, our population, and I'm getting

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this off of 2019 census estimates that were listed, feel free to look them up so that you can verify

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what I'm saying, but our population currently around the 47,000 mark breaks down to how

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our background is and what our poverty levels are. I also listed the city because obviously

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the city is the biggest municipality within our county and we do a lot of work with the city.

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Although our primary function is to patrol the outlying towns, we also assist all the other police

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agencies. We're fortunate to have a county that none of the police agencies have more

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officers that we can use. And most of the time, if you've paid attention to the

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patch, you'll see that we are very often working together so that we can get the job done

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between the shortage of manpower that we tend to run into.

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As far as the sheriff's overview,

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The Sheriff's Office started in 1808.

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Obviously, that picture was just kind of a nice showing that just the changes that we're going over.

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And the times that we're living in right now is just, you know, no different.

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Law enforcement has changed over the years and will continue to change with the public and what our needs are.

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And that's really why we're here today.

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The Sheriff's Office comprises basically three different divisions.

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the corrections division, the rope troll division and the civil division.

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Basically what we're going to go down through today is what those all mean.

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I think a lot of people know what it is in the oversight,

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but I'm not sure that they know exactly when it comes to the specifics of what those divisions do.

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I'm going to start with the Sheriff's Office Mission Statement.

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I think it's very important for the people to know that this is basically what we work by as a Sheriff's Office.

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The Quarton County Sheriff's Office recognizes and braces our noble duty to serve as the

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entrusted guardians of peace, justice and democracy in our community.

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We pledged up, hold our core values of honor and integrity, courage and respect as we provide

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effective police services in a professional, courteous and equitable manner.

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We will work as a team and collaborate within our resident with our residents to earn and

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establish mutual respect, trust and understanding. Lastly, we will be dedicated to our mission,

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loyal to each other, and disciplined, in our endeavors to create and sustain a safe and welcoming

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environment for our citizens and guests of our community. I think that's important to know

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that basically, that's what we stand for, and that's what we strive for, and we try to live up

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that every day.

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I'm going to start basically how the system works here at the Sheriff's Office

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with just how things have changed and what we're doing to try and recruit officers.

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When I started back in the late 80s, when it came to take civil service tests, I mean,

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we used to have, seem like there was 100 names on there. If there wasn't, there was close

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to it. Now when we take a test, depending on what division, we're really fine in that

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not getting the candidates we'd like to see. The numbers aren't there and we're trying to

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do what we can to get that back. So we can get qualified, good candidates to choose from for

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my agencies and I'm sure the other law enforcement here in Portland.

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I'm just showing that when I started we didn't use any of these things. Now when it comes to law enforcement

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of any kind. You're seeing it. People are using TV, social media, job fairs, advertisements,

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really anything you can get out so that people know that we're interested in recruiting people.

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We want good people to come in and help our departments thrive. This is what one of the recruitment

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packets we made up for the road patrol. I did this with the help of my staff so that we could start

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going to different job fairs, the area community colleges, the colleges around us, surrounding

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counties even, trying to get the word out that this is what we're about and this is what we're

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looking to do. This slide is just basically a similar one. The same thing goes for corrections.

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The corrections field is a very professional field that I don't think back when I started,

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I don't think it was looked at the same way as it is today and it's really important

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career field that's a little more than the two-week training when I started, but we're

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looking to get the word out and trying to get more people to come looking to this type

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of career so that we can make the best choices we can with what we have out there.

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This is just a quick photo of some of the job fairs we try and get as much information as we can out there.

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A lot of times now that used to be that we really didn't get the correction staff out there that often.

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I like to promote that how big a job field it is so I like to get, like to get my people out there so people see them more so they're thinking that way.

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As far as the selection process, once we get somebody that is interested, they have to go and take a civil service exam.

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That, in itself, is not really a hard task. It's the biggest thing with that is for a law enforcement, with me and when we're looking at our candidates, the scores, it's all done by civil service law. I don't have a lot of saying that, actually I got none. So we have to follow the rules that they have for us. The scores are broke up in the chunks, you know, typically you'll have $19590, that sort of thing. Unfortunately, I don't get to look at the whole list and then just kind of pick and choose who we think might be the best.

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we were given the top three scores.

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And then we go from there from that top three scores.

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We'll go to the next stages.

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They had the physical agility test,

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which is it's not a hard test, but I'll be honest.

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We're seeing a lot of people that aren't making it through that.

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Like, and I'm sure it's probably always been that way,

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because it's not a cakewalk.

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It's not a real hard thing, but on the same token,

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you've got to be physically fit and ready for it.

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So it's not just adding body.

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Once you make it through the agility test and we get your name on the list and you're in

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the top three, then we can call you in for an interview.

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We'll have a panel view, a panel interview with, usually it's three in my administrative

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We will meet the interviews, we will interview them, see what their thoughts are, what their

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background is.

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And then if they meet, what we think is right for our office, we will do an event background

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investigation.

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We'll be looking at them to possibly hire them.

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The background, the investigation is not an easy thing to pass.

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It is if you've never had any type of trouble with law enforcement or anything like that.

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But a lot of times, and I'm not talking about little interaction with a speed and stop

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talk to or anything like that, but it's, you know, we're basically looking for people that

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they really haven't had a criminal type of background or anything like that and sometimes

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it's, you would think it'd be easy but it's not as easy as sometimes we'd think to find good

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candidates with that. Once we find a candidate that we think is a good fit for our office,

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We then go to the next stage, we offer a potential position, they have to go through a

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drug screen, the psychological exam, a medical exam, and then a fingerprint in check

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to make sure there is nothing that we missed in the potential for the background.

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As far as the background, they're pretty intensive.

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I mean, if you lived in different states before you come here, it's not a problem, but we

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go back and check all those places. As you can imagine, we want to make sure that when we're

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talking for people to go into the positions we're going in, we want to make sure we didn't miss

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anything.

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I think as far as the selection process that kind of puts it pretty much in a nutshell,

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a lot of that, again, I don't have a say in how it works. It's under civil service law.

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So moving along to the next stage of this, I'm going to have Captain Nick Lynch and my corrections

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division come up so he can tell you a little bit about our corrections program.

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Sheriff, well, Captain Lynch is coming up. We're going to attempt to share this screen so

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that folks at home have a better

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ability to see this.

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Thank

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you,

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Captain Lynch. Thank you. Thank you, Sheriff. As a sheriff stated, I am Captain Nick Lynch.

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I am a lifelong resident of Cortland County.

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I started my career in corrections in 2003.

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And eventually in 2017 I was promoted to the rank of captain, which is responsible

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for jail administration and oversight of the corrections division.

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The correction division of Cortland County Sheriff's Office is responsible for the operation

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of the Cortland County jail, the purpose of the correction division is to provide for the care,

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custody, treatment, supervision, discipline, and correctional programs for all persons committed

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to the custody of the Cortland County Sheriff.

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So, correctional facilities in New York State, they operate pursuant to constitutional and legislative

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statutes and regulations. They define the responsibilities for the administration and maintenance

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of correctional facilities. The most prinoted regulation is what's known as the minimum

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standards and regulations for management of county jails and penitentiaries. That is set by the

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New York State Commission of Corrections, who has oversight of correctional facilities in New York

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state.

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The New York State Commission of Corrections annually, if not, more frequently, come

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into correctional facilities and conduct various inspections for compliance with policies

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and procedures and standards that they have set forth.

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Our facility, the Coral County Jail, is an 89-bed facility that was built in 1990.

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We house both male and female inmates, unscentenced inmates,

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sentenced inmates, they're sentenced to a local term of incarceration.

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Sivly confined inmates, and we also participate in the centralized agreement part.

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So what that means is we have recently in 2020.

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We partnered and worked with various courts in our area and came up with a centralized

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a Raymond Court. This allowed, you know, kind of a two-part function, various different

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police agencies in the area. We will take a pre-arrayment or SD from their custody, and

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we will supervise them, allow them to get back out into the communities that they serve.

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Additionally, this also expedited the arayment process. It allowed quicker access to judges

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and quicker access to councils for defundance, waiting for their arayment.

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So the correction

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division staff. So the staff totals for our facility is 51. The staff in totals in our facility

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are determined by the New York State Commission of Corrections. They have some various rules

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and regulations that they utilize when they come to those determinations. You know, one in particular

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is, you know, if we do have female inmates in custody, we are required to have a female

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in the facility. On top of determining the total number of staff required to supervise the facility.

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So, as a captain, we have one captain, one lieutenant, six sergeants and 43 officers.

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Currently, we have 11 vacancies open positions.

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So, as a sheriff, you know, mentioned earlier with civil service requirements, you know,

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the intel, you know, it is difficult, you know, with the pool of candidates that we have to be able to fill those positions in those vacancies.

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So, as the captain, some of my responsibilities are maintaining the safety, security of staff and

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property, as well as overseeing the care custody and well-being of inmates confined in the

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correctional facility.

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This is achieved through making sure we're in compliance not only with our own policies

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and procedures, but also the minimum standard regulations and various laws that are applicable.

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The lieutenant is responsible for coordinating and directing staff and operations and activities

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in correctional facility on a daily basis.

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The sergeants are the first line supervisors who work with correction officers ensuring the

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enforcement of rules, regulations, governing security, conduct, discipline, safety, and

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general well-being of inmates confined in the county jail.

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The officer work involves a responsibility for the enforcement of rules, regulations covering

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the cost of the security conduct discipline, safety, and general well-being of the inmates confined

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at the Cortland County jail.

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Hold on one second, we'll have a little technical difficulty here.

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So the training that goes into peace officer certification for correction officers,

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as a

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sheriff had mentioned before when it comes to training, he had stated that he had approximately

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two weeks of training and I can honestly say in the training field even in my short time

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working in the correction division. It has come a long, long way. And I remember it

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very times when I was, you know, in the facility, you know, on top of the sheriff's story

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that he shared talking about two weeks training, you know, somebody older, more senior staff

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that we work with, also shared their experiences in the training that they received, compared to

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the training that they were receiving now. And I think that's really indicative of the

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direction that we're heading in corrections and recognizing corrections as a career and the

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professionals and that's displayed on a daily basis by those that staff the facility.

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So currently for peace officer certification the requirement is a ten-week long academy.

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So that academy follows the state guidance on an approved curriculum that covers a variety

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of topics that we're going to touch based on here shortly.

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Additionally, in the facility, we have a six-week on the job training that's supervised

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by field training officer.

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So not just anybody in the facility, do we allow to be a field training officer?

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In fact, there's additional training requirements of, you know, an excess of 32 hours that

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we send individuals to where they learned, you know, special instructions and how to deal

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shape and mold new recruits as they come through the door.

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that's been instrumental in our facility

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and building the staff to where it is now.

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So during that period, that six weeks,

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you know, new harders will spend two weeks on each shift

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where they're repeatedly covered policies

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and procedures of the facility.

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They cover the shift operations for each shift.

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You know, we do have three shifts in the facility.

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They run seven to three, three p.m. to 11 p.m.

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and then 11 p.m. to 7 in the morning, and each shift has its own certain functions that they're

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responsible for that keeps them pretty busy throughout the day. And also they cover extensively,

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minimum standards for correctional facilities.

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So some of the trauma topics that are covered

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during the academy are the use of force. And again, the use of force has come a long way

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And it's time.

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Currently right now, you know,

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staff that go through this training,

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they do an access of 160 hours of training

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and use the force.

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That training is continuously

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reviewed and updated by New York State.

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Even since I began employment again in 2003,

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I can't even count the number of changes in use of force updates

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and refreshers that I've had

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and my career is new things are developed on the state level.

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One, they do have this training for the updates and review of the use of force.

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We do send staff that are certified to instruct and train.

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Additionally, those staff will come back to the facility, and they will, you know,

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annually train staff and the facility to make sure we're in compliance with the most recent

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updates and techniques.

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De-escalation is another huge one, especially when it comes to a correctional facility.

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You know, the population that we deal with oftentimes there can be a difficult population in there, and the escalation has been instrumental in diffusing some situations.

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What we call the escalation in our facility is what we refer to as interpersonal communication skills.

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And basically what they have breaks down through is the stability to communicate with an individual and resolve conflicts.

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Additionally, they cover training in ethics, personal awareness, special needs in mates,

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inmates transports, and suicide prevention.

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And although this training that they receiving the academy, it doesn't stop there.

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You know, our department is dedicated to continuing training, you know, for all staff.

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And we strive to make sure that they go to as many training opportunities as we can find

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available for, you know, although we're not accredited, we do follow the accreditation guidelines,

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so I'm not only meeting but often exceeding.

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The training requirements set forth. Few examples of the training that staff, you know, attend separately from the academy. We do first aid CPR, AED and NARC and training.

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Thus we actually do in-house. We are actually certified training in the health center, and we have three instructors in our facility who are certified to teach those programs.

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We send individuals out for special, it's a mental health first aid course.

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We do participate with a court and city police and they're emotionally disturbed person

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response team training that they host annually.

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We also have staff participate in trauma-informed care field intelligence, as I mentioned briefly

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the field training officers, supervisor schools for those who are achieving rank, instructor

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development courses, which we send our instructors to, which teach them the skills and tools necessary

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to provide that important information to the staff on the various training topics that they

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are assigned to teach. We have individuals at a time buying coordinator training and that's an

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important tool to the community. You know, the buying program is a victim notification program that

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allows victims to have access to immediate notifications if individuals are released from custody

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or otherwise transferred from our facility.

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We have leadership training, and we also send individuals for training that specializes

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in fire and security and correctional facilities.

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So a lot of the functions we talked about throughout the day, you know, in the various shifts

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or facility operations, and we're just going to go over a few of them right now emissions.

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So admissions to the facility, so only a judge can commit an individual into the jail, you know, so one of those individuals come in there's a process that takes place called we refer to it as a booking process

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But I think what's important to highlight during this booking process is that the staff complete a number of risk assessments and suicide screenings during that process

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of which there's probably total of over 35 questions just in those screenings alone, which

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they often touch base on a lot of various topics around substance use disorders or mental

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health issues. And the good part about these risk assessments, they're done in conjunction, but

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they're available to all their staff. We have an facility that will cover here shortly. And oftentimes,

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you know, when the staff are doing the booking, it almost always results in a referral to appropriate

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care coordination in our facility. This challenges just that individuals get released from

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custody. This could be for a variety of reasons. It could be by an order of court releasing

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the individual. It could have been a bail or a bond or an expiration of sentence. That's a

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problem to understand that when we do this charge individuals from custody. In those cases where

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we do have noticed a sentence to individual that we have a lot of time to work with, we do a

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participating in this large planning and coordination, you know, and that's in conjunction

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with a lot of community service providers that we have in the area, you know, that coordination

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can involve housing, education, employment, or, you know, healthcare,

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classification.

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So classification is kind of a system we use and determining how we house individuals in

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facility. And this is an integral important piece that allows us to keep our facility safe.

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Tradition on, there's a 12 category system. So what that means when there's a 12 category

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system that you use, we wouldn't be allowed to put certain individuals next to each other.

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So if I had a sentence to individual, I wouldn't be able to put them next to an unsatained

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individual. If I had somebody who was civily confined, I would be able to put them next

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to anybody.

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You know, and then because our county and our probation department operates

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the Alternative Student Conservation Program, that enables us to use a 4.0 point system,

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which basically breaks it down into minor.mail, female, for consideration, so we can

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combing a little sense in on-sand. But additionally, on top of that, we have an actual

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classification form we use, which when you go through this form and it's done by our

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sergeants and reviewed by our latinants and myself, and it's reviewed in our 30 days

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and at 90 day intervals to make sure we appropriately house people on the facility, it's

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an actual point system and we use general or closed custody to determine the level of supervision

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that's needed in the facility.

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The topics that are covered in those range from anything from the criminal history, substance

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use mental health, prior victimization, their prior behavior list issues inside the facility,

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but also, you know, we focus on, you know, good adjustment periods, what they've done,

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good to try to reduce those levels, make sure we got them appropriately housed in our facility.

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Housing and supervision, you know, those are the areas in our facility where we supervise

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the inmates, you know, generally on a general active or constant supervision.

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So those supervision levels that I talked about, there's certain requirements they go with those supervision levels and they really depends on the classification and where those individuals are housed in our facilities, the level of supervision.

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Just to give a brief example, if I've got a constant supervision, that's what would be a one on one suicide watch. We would have one staff member assigned to watch one individual who's in that capacity.

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Also, there's various programs that are run throughout the day in the facility.

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Staff supervises programs that range from exercise, visitation, education, and also a lot

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of local service providers, which we'll touch based on here in a little bit, that provide

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services in our facility.

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Transportation, instructional staff's do-transportations, and the community, those range

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from court transport, medical transports, they could be a rehab transport, taking an individual

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and dropping them off to an patient, rehab for treatment, and additionally a prison transport.

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We also have a grievance and complaint process. So what that entails is inmates and

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a professional facility if they have any issue that they wish to file a complaint on, that process

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starts with us. So what we have in that situation is I have

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staff that are assigned to a role of grievance coordinator or

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investigators, both of which have had training to operate in

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those roles. So, you know, the grievance process in the

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facility is our opportunity to resolve or look at these

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complaints. They start out on a local level. So they start out

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with just us, the grievance coordinator will get the grievance.

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He'll go talk with the individual, he may sign an investigator,

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he had their more information, he'll make a determination,

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you know, whether he agrees and finds merit in that complaint

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or that he perhaps doesn't agree and there's no merit contained

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in that complaint.

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There's a, some back and forth after that,

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to go back to the inmate, he can either accept or, you know,

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appeal it to the next level.

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And the next level, it comes up to me for my review.

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I'm genuinely good. It makes it to my desk. I don't really have a whole lot of work or investigative duties to do because it's all done when it hits my desk.

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I get the whole packet, the whole material and everything to look at to render my decision.

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If it does not agree with the decision afterwards, it doesn't end there. They have an opportunity to send the grievance to Albany.

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They have a citizen policy complaint and review counsel that is responsible to review those complaints.

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That council, and Albany, is made up of lawyers, ex-offenders, retired law, and forced

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missiles.

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It's really a wide range of professionals that take an opportunity to look and review

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those.

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And kind of touch-based, we're going to talk in one of these grievances in the mid-90s,

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and I went back and looked, and I talked with the undershare about it, because it was when

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he was working over in the facility and coming through and assigned in some of these

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rules as grievance coordinators, you know, in the mid-90s, you know, we were 800 plus grievances

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a year, you know, and so we talked about the training and the training that staff were receiving

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now on the level of professionalism that has come into play, you know, interactions, you

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know, today, we've only our facilities only have 53 grievances this year.

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And I think it started with the undershared off, you know, working diligently and, you know,

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reducing those grievances and using our IPC skills and we've only continued to grow on that.

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And I think it's indicative of our training that we received.

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And I mean that number speaks for itself when it going from 800 plus complaints and grievances a year

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down to 53, you know, your staff's definitely doing something right.

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So we also have a food service in the jail, so we have one full-time shop, one part-time

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cook, and currently we have one open-part-time cook position.

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So while we have the viewing audience, I'm going to shamelessly plug that open cook position

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that we have, and if anybody has the qualifications necessary, they can reach out to the

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Court and Accounting Personnel Civil Service and Seek the Requirements and Job description

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and possibly apply for that position.

425
00:40:03,450 --> 00:40:08,630
So, our menones are submitted annually to a nutritionist certified by the state education department.

426
00:40:09,270 --> 00:40:14,330
So, over year, we have cycle menus, seven weeks cycle menu in the facility, every year.

427
00:40:14,670 --> 00:40:19,190
We sent it to a nutritionist who looks and makes sure that we're meeting the adequate guidelines.

428
00:40:19,390 --> 00:40:26,130
We also have to meet all religious dietary requirements on top of medical diets.

429
00:40:26,130 --> 00:40:29,050
So if somebody has a heart healthy or a diabetic diet,

430
00:40:29,050 --> 00:40:30,950
we make sure we provide that in the facility.

431
00:40:35,460 --> 00:40:38,720
So our support services, we contract with a medical doctor,

432
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:42,600
a family nurse practitioner, and one registered nurse.

433
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,640
You know, I think it's important to understand

434
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,200
that the medical care that somebody receives in custody

435
00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:52,400
is no different than anybody walking

436
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:53,740
into the doctor on the street.

437
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,160
The same exact medical care is provided in this facility.

438
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:02,740
If we're unable to provide the medical care and the facility, you know, due to maybe

439
00:41:02,740 --> 00:41:07,260
or facility requirements, tools, equipment, or maybe it's something that we're just not

440
00:41:07,260 --> 00:41:13,080
able to do, we will go out into the community, we'll transport an individual to another service

441
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:17,720
provider to make sure that they receive the appropriate medical care that is needed.

442
00:41:18,780 --> 00:41:22,860
We provide dental services, they are off-site, so we do transport for dental services,

443
00:41:27,140 --> 00:41:27,140
and

444
00:41:27,140 --> 00:41:32,380
site as well. We'll transport individuals, you know, and they can get eye exams and

445
00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:35,660
if they need glasses, we make sure we provide them on glasses.

446
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,640
So this is one of the

447
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:47,020
pieces that we are very, very, very fortunate to have in our facility. We're one of the few

448
00:41:47,020 --> 00:41:51,480
counties that has a mental health counselor provided by the Court on the County Health Department

449
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:57,380
on site. She also functions as a transitional coordinator and the facility.

450
00:41:58,940 --> 00:42:03,340
And this is really important because a lot of times when an individual comes into custody,

451
00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:07,060
this might be their first time with a mental health professional.

452
00:42:07,180 --> 00:42:11,140
It may be their first contact ever at trying to address some of the issues that maybe they

453
00:42:11,140 --> 00:42:13,800
don't realize, you know, our issues.

454
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:20,620
But having that mindset, we provide continuity, care, treatment, and coordination for those individuals.

455
00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:21,780
And

456
00:42:28,980 --> 00:42:34,200
most of this last piece is a big piece and, you know, really it could probably, you

457
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:40,340
know, talk for, you know, an hour or two hours alone, and all these, you know, programs

458
00:42:40,340 --> 00:42:41,740
and service and providers.

459
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:54,860
The Quorum County Sheriff's Office is dedicated to providing the rehabilitation that supports

460
00:42:54,860 --> 00:43:00,020
the growth and rehabilitation of incarcerated population and effort to reduce recedivism.

461
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:10,100
A lot of times, it was said to me, you know, really young in my career, you know, a mentor

462
00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:13,880
of mine made a combat, you know, working in the correctional facility and says, look, you

463
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:19,980
got to understand these are sons, these are daughters, these are fathers, parents, family,

464
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:21,720
these are members of the community.

465
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:26,680
You know, and that's been one thing that's really kind of stuck with me throughout my career

466
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:32,320
and really helped me coming up where I have, is always keeping that in the back of my mind.

467
00:43:32,420 --> 00:43:37,080
These are members of the community, you know, and ultimately, what can we do?

468
00:43:37,340 --> 00:43:40,700
Well, services can we offer, you know, to try to help these members of the community,

469
00:43:40,860 --> 00:43:44,560
to try to reduce the recidivism, to try to get them to attract, to try to help them out.

470
00:43:46,900 --> 00:43:50,640
You know, so one thing I participate in drug treatment court,

471
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:57,040
You know, I'm a team member there, it's, you know, there's a, it's through Cortland City Court.

472
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:05,000
There is a whole variety of team members that range from the Public Defenders Office, a district attorney's office.

473
00:44:05,460 --> 00:44:10,980
There's also several service providers that assist in the community, whether it's family counseling, beacon center,

474
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:15,280
or the trial street residents, or halfway house, the probation department.

475
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:18,000
We're all on the treatment court team.

476
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:25,260
What treatment court is is this alternative to incarceration that allows approved members to complete

477
00:44:25,260 --> 00:44:28,700
appropriate recommended treatment for substance use disorder.

478
00:44:29,580 --> 00:44:33,420
What that does and what that program does is it really tries and strives to keep individuals

479
00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:40,180
out of jail and it tries to work with providers in the community or outside the community to get

480
00:44:40,180 --> 00:44:44,980
to help and services the individuals who are suffering from substance use disorder needs.

481
00:44:45,580 --> 00:44:50,220
You know, on the ultimate goal of drug treatment court is, you know, the ultimate goal of sobriety

482
00:44:50,220 --> 00:44:52,800
and getting the individual to become a productive member of society.

483
00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:59,960
Another thing is the director in 2017, the director of community resources through the Department of Mental Health.

484
00:45:00,180 --> 00:45:18,460
Tainted grant, noted as a sequential intercept mapping. You know, and that was a collaborative effort, a lot of parts, and what that did is it brought a tremendous amount of community service providers that all really deal with justice involved individuals in some capacity.

485
00:45:18,460 --> 00:45:24,120
It brought them to the table, it gave an opportunity for great dialogue to learn about services

486
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:28,660
that were being provided, you know, and I learned things that I didn't even know were being provided

487
00:45:28,660 --> 00:45:29,860
in the community.

488
00:45:31,300 --> 00:45:34,940
You know, so we took the opportunity to learn from all these different individuals who came

489
00:45:34,940 --> 00:45:40,640
to talk about programs and services that they offer, gave us an opportunity to identify gaps

490
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,640
and services, what are we missing.

491
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,340
But more importantly, it gave us the ability to formulate those relationships with the individuals

492
00:45:47,340 --> 00:45:51,560
in the community, and bridge those gaps, you know, and try to mend some of those things

493
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,760
that we have in trouble and difficulties trying to achieve in our facility, you know, when

494
00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:00,180
it came to coordination, to care, discharge, planning, and how to obtain, you know, even

495
00:46:00,180 --> 00:46:03,940
something as simple as health insurance, you know, things along those lines, we were very lucky

496
00:46:03,940 --> 00:46:07,160
that we're one of the facilities in the state, the first one of the state, they started

497
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:11,880
the process of activating health insurance for inmates prior to release and discharge.

498
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:19,760
From the sequential intercept mapping came the re-entry and transition council, that is a smaller

499
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:25,880
group that means regularly to discuss, you know, maybe they kind of stay more on topic with, you

500
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:30,180
know, individuals from incarceration, you know, whether they're leaving prison or leaving

501
00:46:30,180 --> 00:46:35,060
our local jails and the services that we can provide and what we can do to help and assist them.

502
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,980
And again, identify the gaps and bridges gaps and services and to help.

503
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:45,580
So, what we have, what generated from all this was a bi-monthly service provider schedule.

504
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:55,020
So, what that is is that the limitations of our facility in our design, you know, in space and all the programs and recordings we have to do.

505
00:46:55,160 --> 00:47:00,820
We really had to strive because the last thing we wanted to do is we had all these people that want to help our population.

506
00:47:00,940 --> 00:47:06,620
They want to come in and talk about what they can do, the services they can provide and how to coordinate those services.

507
00:47:06,620 --> 00:47:10,420
is how we can link them up to the outside when individuals are released from custody.

508
00:47:10,620 --> 00:47:16,520
So we really had to work together to come up with times and scheduling and that they would

509
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,260
meet both the facility needs, but also the provider needs on the outside to make sure they

510
00:47:20,260 --> 00:47:20,780
are available.

511
00:47:22,260 --> 00:47:26,280
So no matter one through a few of the service providers are not briefly touch base and some

512
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:32,240
of the services they provide, they are not by any means all of the services they provide.

513
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:37,720
Like I said, I'd be able to go on for quite some time if we went on talking about them.

514
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,860
So we have peer services that comes to our facility.

515
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:47,280
You know, peer services are individuals that have either been trained or have life experience similar

516
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,760
to individuals incarcerated in our facility.

517
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,340
That's an invaluable asset to have.

518
00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:58,020
They come, they talk about the services they can offer, but we also allow the peer and opportunity

519
00:47:58,780 --> 00:48:04,980
to meet with an end cost of the, to establish that connection prior to this charge.

520
00:48:05,940 --> 00:48:08,260
It's, it's, it's creates a warm hand off off the door.

521
00:48:08,340 --> 00:48:11,860
It's another person at the individual can go to, who's kind of bent through,

522
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,060
bent successful, you know, maybe learn things the hard way,

523
00:48:15,700 --> 00:48:18,020
but that individual can relate to and that individual can,

524
00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:21,180
the pure can guide them and help them.

525
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,240
Employment connections is another one that comes in and participates.

526
00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:31,100
They got a primary focus on, you know, individuals with, you know, your physical disabilities

527
00:48:31,100 --> 00:48:34,340
or maybe cognitive or developmental disabilities.

528
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:40,780
And they focus on engaging those individuals and working towards community employment.

529
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,580
Cortland works as another agency in the community.

530
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,900
We work with it, comes in participates in the jail.

531
00:48:47,020 --> 00:48:48,100
Cortland works again.

532
00:48:49,220 --> 00:48:51,740
They have various funding streams.

533
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:57,800
They help individuals with employment opportunities in the community or continue to education.

534
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:03,640
If we have an individual and our facility that starts educational services and there, and maybe doesn't quite finish,

535
00:49:04,260 --> 00:49:05,620
that that was the link.

536
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,120
You know, the gap was what do we do when they get out.

537
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:13,740
You know, the link in the bridge was court and the works can pick them up and where we left off.

538
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,100
We work with the court and kind of health department, so they come into our facility.

539
00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:24,940
do education on a appetite to see also another important one that they come in and do.

540
00:49:24,940 --> 00:49:31,760
They do narcan training. With the opiate crisis, they were currently facing, they train

541
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:39,240
our MA population on the use of narcan, how to use it and what they do after it's used. But

542
00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:46,660
more importantly, the county provides the narcan kits to the inmates. So we take the kits, we play

543
00:49:46,660 --> 00:49:50,200
in their property. And when they're discharged from custody, when they leave our facility,

544
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:55,480
they have those kids right on them when they walk out the door. And that's huge. And I think

545
00:49:55,480 --> 00:50:00,980
they was a pretty big, you know, hurdle to get that. And a lot of times it was the individuals

546
00:50:00,980 --> 00:50:06,420
coming in the facility. And I can't tell you how many names that we've read were released or

547
00:50:06,420 --> 00:50:11,380
discharged somebody from custody only to read or hear about an overdose a few days later.

548
00:50:11,720 --> 00:50:15,760
And then that's, you know, the old pre-its and the tolerance levels and going back to what

549
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:21,080
are doing prior to them coming in jail, and I firmly believe that the Narcan that we've

550
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,360
been providing upon release is definitely save some lives.

551
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,480
We participate with a Beacon Center.

552
00:50:28,860 --> 00:50:34,480
They come in and provide the educate the population about the services that they provide

553
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,480
relative to substance use disorders.

554
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:41,900
Family counseling, again, is another agency we partner well with that provides education

555
00:50:41,900 --> 00:50:47,820
substance use disorders, also the Cody program comes in which is a Center of Treatment Initiative,

556
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:53,020
which is a, you know, it's a mobile treatment for substance use disorders.

557
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:58,380
We partner with DSS, DSS comes into our facility talks about the services they provide.

558
00:50:58,860 --> 00:51:04,500
Syracuse recovery comes in, they talk about, you know, the services that their agency can provide

559
00:51:04,500 --> 00:51:11,280
to our, and make population. We also have the child development council come in

560
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:17,540
and talk to the population, they promote healthy development with children and families in our community.

561
00:51:18,220 --> 00:51:24,160
Also, they have a healthy family programs, which is offered to pregnant inmates or those that have a newborn

562
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:25,260
three months or less.

563
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:30,720
There's a lot of services and programs that they can guide and help and mentor those individuals too.

564
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,500
I think it's important to mention, you know, while we hear some of those programs in some of their

565
00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:39,670
offered, and they may be tailored to a certain population, whether it's, you know, like I just talked about the

566
00:51:39,670 --> 00:51:40,570
I'm going to see the females.

567
00:51:41,170 --> 00:51:48,690
This information is made available to our entire inmate population, and I have talked to

568
00:51:48,690 --> 00:51:53,570
other inmates in the facility when I made various rounds and communicated with them about

569
00:51:53,570 --> 00:51:58,710
the services and getting some feedback on it, and general census is a lot of them didn't

570
00:51:58,710 --> 00:51:59,350
know.

571
00:51:59,750 --> 00:52:04,650
This stuff was being offered, but more importantly, some of them may have family on the outside

572
00:52:04,650 --> 00:52:09,010
that could benefit from some of these services and programs that we are offering.

573
00:52:09,010 --> 00:52:30,970
You know, and I think that was pretty huge, you know, and recognize it not only are we impacting, you know, the population and the facility and we're educating them about, you know, all the service providers that we collaborate with in the community, you know, not only we provide them with that information at their fingertips, but they're sharing that information with their family, they're sharing that information with their friends too. That's huge.

574
00:52:31,890 --> 00:52:38,090
We also have religious services, two nights a week, alcohol and anonymous, comes to the facility once a week.

575
00:52:39,250 --> 00:52:40,670
We have a Vivatral Program.

576
00:52:41,070 --> 00:52:48,790
So the Vivatral Program and the facilities of Vivatral is a medication used for opioid addiction or alcohol addiction.

577
00:52:50,230 --> 00:52:51,550
There's a selection process.

578
00:52:51,950 --> 00:52:56,590
There are some strict medical criteria that must be met prior to approval.

579
00:52:56,590 --> 00:53:08,310
There's a panel that reviews, inmates that are interested in the Vivital Program, we have a panel that reviews it and will approve or deny that request based on medical recommendations or recommendations from that panel.

580
00:53:09,070 --> 00:53:16,970
But the good thing that happens with this, if in May and custody decides they want to have Vivital, we give them their first dose of medication prior to discharge from the facility.

581
00:53:16,970 --> 00:53:22,390
But not only that, it doesn't just here's your medication and go, we allow them to choose

582
00:53:22,390 --> 00:53:26,070
from some of the service providers in a community that specializes in substance use to

583
00:53:26,070 --> 00:53:32,270
sort of that also have a vitroal, the ability to supervise a vitroal medication.

584
00:53:33,490 --> 00:53:34,450
And we link that.

585
00:53:34,450 --> 00:53:38,330
They have those appointments made, those follow-up appointments and treatments made prior

586
00:53:38,330 --> 00:53:39,450
to them getting out of the facility.

587
00:53:39,590 --> 00:53:42,670
So, they receive the medication while they're in the facility, and then as they walk

588
00:53:42,670 --> 00:53:46,650
out the door, they already have their appointments made with a service provider for a follow-up

589
00:53:46,650 --> 00:53:48,490
I don't know what you have care.

590
00:53:50,270 --> 00:53:55,270
Very touch based on the Narcan training and education, so both of these are educational provider

591
00:53:55,270 --> 00:53:57,250
and facility to do a phenomenal job.

592
00:53:57,750 --> 00:54:03,130
It's been, it will be on us a little challenging to help with COVID, but we do have staff

593
00:54:03,130 --> 00:54:08,570
assigned that work in a role closely with them to go back and forth to make sure that individuals

594
00:54:08,570 --> 00:54:13,290
in custody who don't have high school diplomas have the ability to work towards that and

595
00:54:13,290 --> 00:54:14,710
eventually achieve that.

596
00:54:14,710 --> 00:54:21,670
They also have a specialized vocational training program in our facility for custodial certification

597
00:54:22,390 --> 00:54:28,650
so that, you know, inmates that choose to attend that program that leave with a certification for, you know, custodial maintenance.

598
00:54:29,670 --> 00:54:37,870
They also come to our bi-monthly presentations and talk to the population. They talk about, you know, funding opportunities for, you know, low-income individuals.

599
00:54:37,870 --> 00:54:44,830
They talk about the vocational education that they can provide and they'll assist individuals in custody if they want to go

600
00:54:45,950 --> 00:54:50,090
You know, they'll assist them in the process. So if they want to go say our court on one, you know

601
00:54:50,090 --> 00:54:55,350
Court on both seas has in the mechanics will if they want a system and see how help try to find maybe some revenue sources

602
00:54:55,350 --> 00:55:00,230
But we can definitely work towards getting you in a world and that or our HVAC or you know

603
00:55:00,230 --> 00:55:06,650
Welding up in Syracuse, you know, they work with these individuals to try to get them engaged in the vocational training and let them know that that's available

604
00:55:07,930 --> 00:55:22,730
We also have immediate workers in the facility, these would be locally sentenced individuals who are generally well behaved, and they provide a series of functions to the facility, whether it's in the seat pictured here.

605
00:55:23,110 --> 00:55:31,610
We have laundry service, the M.A. population, so a worker would be assigned to laundry, and his responsibility is laundry for the entire facility.

606
00:55:31,610 --> 00:55:35,830
We have, they made workers that will be assigned to the kitchen detail.

607
00:55:37,010 --> 00:55:38,130
That one is just as important.

608
00:55:38,430 --> 00:55:39,470
Some of these go into the kitchen.

609
00:55:40,690 --> 00:55:43,070
They've never really learned how to prepare,

610
00:55:43,610 --> 00:55:46,150
inadequate, nutritious, healthy meal.

611
00:55:46,570 --> 00:55:49,710
And our cook often takes time to teach them

612
00:55:49,710 --> 00:55:50,910
while they're down there.

613
00:55:51,350 --> 00:55:54,310
Some skills associated with the cooking,

614
00:55:54,510 --> 00:55:55,350
and that's a kitchen.

615
00:55:58,150 --> 00:56:08,270
We do have a tablet program in our facility, so the tablet program, what that is is it allows

616
00:56:09,230 --> 00:56:14,770
inmates in the facility one access, it has a messaging system so they can go back and forth

617
00:56:14,770 --> 00:56:18,670
with their friends although it's not directly like, you know, a text messaging and there's

618
00:56:18,670 --> 00:56:22,250
quite a delay to it, but it gives them the ability to communicate quicker than it does

619
00:56:22,250 --> 00:56:27,870
sending a letter out through the mail, they act as a phone so they can make additional phone

620
00:56:27,870 --> 00:56:28,170
calls.

621
00:56:28,610 --> 00:56:32,710
Prior to that on a block, they may have one phone for an inmate, you know, now with tablets,

622
00:56:33,190 --> 00:56:36,510
you know, I've increased that one to possibly, you know, depending on the location of

623
00:56:36,510 --> 00:56:41,130
silly, four phones available now for them to communicate and talk with their family.

624
00:56:42,690 --> 00:56:47,930
You know, on top of that, you know, the great thing about these tablets that I like is

625
00:56:47,930 --> 00:56:53,390
We have the ability with these tablets to put information from all of our service providers.

626
00:56:53,550 --> 00:56:58,370
So every service provider that I just talked about and various meetings that we've held,

627
00:56:58,470 --> 00:57:01,310
if I have opportunities to provide me PDF documents.

628
00:57:02,270 --> 00:57:07,030
So I take those PDF documents and I can make those available on those tablets for free

629
00:57:07,030 --> 00:57:07,630
to the inmates.

630
00:57:08,830 --> 00:57:11,810
So that's been pretty instrumental getting them the information.

631
00:57:12,030 --> 00:57:16,150
So not only do they get it in person, but they also have the information at their fingertips.

632
00:57:16,850 --> 00:57:20,990
Another program that we do, we have weekly done through wishing wellness peer services.

633
00:57:21,710 --> 00:57:26,790
They come in nightly and they work on life skills and aid dimensions of wellness with

634
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a focus on personal wellness.

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Also, catheter charities is another agency we partner with that has a huge variety of resources

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available for us to utilize often with discharge planning and offenders and custody.

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Probably, I can't, I don't have time to sit here and list them all, but more importantly,

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a new one that started up in 2020 was the pathways to re-entry.

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What that is is it's dedicated to helping people who are currently incarcerated transition

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into the community by providing the tools, support, and resources leading to employment and

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healthy lifestyles.

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So they actually have frame colleges and crystal gennings assigned to that role and they work

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with our forensic mental health counselor and our transition coordinator and prior to

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release, again, doing that planning to try to help these individuals, re-enter the community

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and be productive members of the community.

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And also, too, on top of the tablets and the PDF documents, another thing that we do have

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that leaves the information at their fingertips is a dignity bag, prior to release and

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individual leave in our facility, gets a bag, that bag contains all the information from all

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00:58:43,290 --> 00:58:48,210
the service providers, how to access their services in the community. So they have it at their

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fingertips again when they walk out the door. So I'd like to thank you for your time. I'd like

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to thank everybody who took the opportunity virtually to participate in the hearing. At this

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point time, I'm going to introduce rope-attroll division captain, Rob Durkson.

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Okay, you can even

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folks, normally someone might be nervous, I'm just glad that I get to take the mask off,

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00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:31,760
so that was an exciting moment for me. As Captain Lynch said, I am Captain Robinson. I've been

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at the Sheriff's Office 20 years this August, so I guess I'm in the twilight of my career now

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at the Sheriff's Office. I've been captain for the last seven. I graduated from Homer High School

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and a graduate of SUNY Cortland.

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So although I wasn't born in Cortland County,

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I'm definitely been cultivated in Cortland County.

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So what I'm going to discuss tonight

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is the rope-troll division in the rope.

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So we're going to start with the uniform patrol division. It's currently staffed. And right now, as of this moment, we are fully staffed. We have two recruits in the police academy. They'll be actually graduating in the next couple weeks and starting their field training. We'll get into that specifically here in a couple slides.

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but we have 26 sworn police officers comprised of one lieutenant that oversees the uniform

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division, five sergeants, and then 20 county police officers. Now although that may

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look like a decent number of officers, as the sheriff had mentioned, that just leaves

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01:00:47,780 --> 01:00:54,040
us with minimum staff and levels of three officers on at any given time. So when you're

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talking about an area of 502 square miles and a population of just shy of 50,000 people, three

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01:01:02,620 --> 01:01:10,320
officers is not a lot. And again, right now, knock on wood, we're fully staffed. In the last

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01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:15,620
couple of years, we've experienced staff shortages in the patrol division as many as nine

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01:01:15,620 --> 01:01:21,540
officers down. So, basically, missing a whole entire shift. And I could certainly probably

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01:01:21,540 --> 01:01:25,580
It's been 90 minutes, just to find why I need more officers.

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So any legislators listening, just put it on my Christmas list.

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If you want to give me some more officers,

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I'd be appreciative of that under the tree this year.

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However, I'm a realist, and I know that that's probably not going to happen.

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We are working towards bumping up the minimum staff into four,

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because like I said, we're finally full.

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Again, I'm going to knock on wood here.

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01:01:47,860 --> 01:01:55,180
But it's it's important to have that when I started it I don't mean to tell dinosaurs stories

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01:01:55,180 --> 01:01:57,760
You know 20 years ago the minimum staffing was two

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01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:05,500
Okay, so you would be on a call up in Kyler. I would be need in the assistance and my backup would be in court lenders

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Sometimes even marathon, so it was definitely you know a learning experience. Let's say

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One of the things here of Helms is also strive for now

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And we just instituted that within the last few months is constantly having a sergeant on duty.

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We now have a sergeant on 24-7.

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And statistics have shown us that the use of force when a sergeant is on duty or when a first-line

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01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:37,820
supervisor is on duty is dramatically decreased, I mean dramatically.

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So like I said, these are all strives and changes that we've made, not because we were

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01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:50,360
had to, not because we were being dictated to, because we knew it was where we wanted

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to be.

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It just sometimes takes us time again because of those staff and shortages that we had in the

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01:02:55,420 --> 01:02:59,400
last couple of years that it took time to get to this point to where we are now.

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01:03:04,780 --> 01:03:09,980
So troll functions, obviously first and foremost is patrol the county roadways.

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Again, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, holidays, you name it, we're out there.

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01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,980
We promote safety by enforcing vehicle and traffic laws.

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01:03:21,500 --> 01:03:26,820
I know people might say cops are out there trying to get quotas and tickets.

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01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:29,800
Well, that's not why we were at right tickets.

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We were right tickets to encourage safe behavior.

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We participate in the New York State Governor's Traffic Safety Committee.

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01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:46,720
We receive grants from that committee, a lot of times the grants emphasize certain safety

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01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:51,560
corridors where a Portland County where they have identified that we've had more fatalities

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01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:55,480
or more personal injury accidents than we should in those regions.

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01:03:55,740 --> 01:04:01,900
So they want us to focus on things that contributed to those accidents such as speed or cell phone

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use.

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01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,900
Like I said, they're basically directed enforcement.

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01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:10,240
proactive patrol, we check businesses and residents.

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01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:17,860
We respond to 911 calls as well as any calls that citizens may make directly to the Sheriff's Office.

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Criminal investigation, accident investigation.

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01:04:23,060 --> 01:04:28,920
Obviously, we assist other first responders, whether it be ambulance, if they've got a combat of patient,

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01:04:29,500 --> 01:04:33,600
fire departments, if they need assistance, force and entry into a residence.

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01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:39,860
Obviously, fire departments have the capability, but they like to have law enforcement present if they have to break into someone's house.

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01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:47,640
And then probably the most important thing, especially at Sheriff's Office, is community policing.

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And I would make this statement unequivocally that every single one of my officers is a community police officer.

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Every single one of them does community police and functions constantly.

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In every single shift, they're constantly being part of the community and outreach into the community.

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01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:18,000
So, when you start your career in law enforcement, the first step is your basic training, your police academy training.

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And the initial academy, it can range anywhere from 20 to 29 weeks and why that disparity is, is we actually use four police academies.

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We use the Brum County Sheriff's Office, Police Academy, the Syracuse City Police Academy, the

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Ana Doggash Sheriff's Office, Police Academy, and then the Southern Tear Police Academy.

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And each academy varies in length, dependent on some of the basic schools may include certain

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01:05:47,980 --> 01:05:54,080
training that if we send them, say, for example, Southern Tear only is they've got the

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20-week class. There might be a train in such a standard field sobriety test in or radar

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where we would have to send a recruit back later or send them to an individual course.

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01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:12,020
So again, broom county is probably the most inclusive as far as they're usually the one that runs

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01:06:12,020 --> 01:06:24,060
29 weeks, but from start to finish the recruit finishes with with every certification that they

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01:06:24,060 --> 01:06:30,300
me, it's 16 weeks of field training. So four months where they're riding with a senior officer,

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01:06:30,860 --> 01:06:36,380
they're being evaluated on a daily basis, they're training, they're learning. Again,

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01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:42,320
and then an additional potential 36 weeks. So it's a total where they're on probation

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01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:48,920
for 18 months. It's during that time where it's determined whether or not they're going

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01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:57,600
be a good police officer. And then the last handful of years, we've actually lost a few officers

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01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:03,140
during this period, where it was decided by the administration that this just wasn't

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the line of work for them. And again, the other thing is that I want to emphasize is that

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01:07:12,980 --> 01:07:18,880
when an officer leaves, we can't just flip a switch and replace them. It's a process and it could

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potentially up to 18 months before we're able to replace them. And that's assuming that a

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01:07:23,740 --> 01:07:28,760
academy is starting right when we have the vacancy. A lot of times we were choosing a academy,

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01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:35,560
it's just based on timing. If we have a vacancy today, and there's an academy starting in January,

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01:07:35,820 --> 01:07:39,000
it just makes the most logical sense to send it to that academy.

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So please train in. This slide in

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particular is kind of in-service training. This is what officers will receive. Obviously there's specialty training that we'll get into in a little bit.

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01:07:55,870 --> 01:08:01,550
One of the pictures a couple years ago through a grant I was able to purchase a firearm simulator.

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01:08:02,490 --> 01:08:13,810
What this allows us more time where officers are making like shoot no shoot scenario based training and simulations. Again, more training is always better.

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01:08:13,810 --> 01:08:21,010
It always gets a better and product, so it allows the officer and the trainers to get more

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01:08:21,010 --> 01:08:24,370
training time with firearms and, again, different scenarios.

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There's just hundreds of ranges and different simulations in that simulator.

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01:08:32,730 --> 01:08:38,890
One of the ones, hopefully, you can see it there in the upper right hand corner, is that's

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01:08:38,890 --> 01:08:44,490
a photo that every year we do annual training with all the law enforcement agencies in

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01:08:44,490 --> 01:08:47,990
Cortland County for active shooter training.

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01:08:49,250 --> 01:08:54,270
We do that with, like I said, the Cortland City Police, the State Police, Palmer Police,

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SUNY Police, NCONs even come and as well as we've instituted local fire departments

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01:09:01,910 --> 01:09:03,350
and EMS services.

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01:09:03,350 --> 01:09:15,250
Not only are we training for God forbid and active shooter situation, but we're also training for medical and rescue operations that would take place in any of those events.

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01:09:17,940 --> 01:09:30,140
Also, at least once a year, sometimes ideally twice a year, the whole entire road patrol gets together for an annual training where we pick various topics.

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And we focus in on those that the sheriff deems that are imperative to train that year.

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01:09:43,730 --> 01:09:49,530
And then, obviously, we have policies as well as continued training.

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01:09:49,810 --> 01:09:53,530
Now, the use of force, that's obviously a big topic of why we're here.

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01:09:54,990 --> 01:09:59,730
Every police officer in the sheriff's office trains every year

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01:09:59,730 --> 01:10:07,050
has an update in what the New York State article 35 it's in the penal law it is New York State's

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01:10:07,050 --> 01:10:16,110
justification for the use of force. On top of that we've got this year we're scheduled in some

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01:10:16,110 --> 01:10:23,890
de-escalization and implicit bias training that's going to be our department wide training this year.

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01:10:23,890 --> 01:10:34,190
However, again, I would make the argument that, as a sheriff's office, our officers,

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01:10:34,710 --> 01:10:39,950
excuse me, a little tongue twister there, are constantly doing de-escalization.

763
01:10:40,810 --> 01:10:45,230
Again, when you're back up as 15, 20 minutes away, you have no choice.

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01:10:45,870 --> 01:10:51,530
I've spent a whole entire career on talking people out of why it's not a good idea to

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01:10:51,530 --> 01:10:58,290
my butt out there, all right. You know when I started 20 years ago I was 160 pounds. I mean

766
01:10:58,290 --> 01:11:05,670
there wasn't a lot to me and I've honed that skill very well and it's just through practice

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01:11:05,670 --> 01:11:09,510
and experience, we're constantly doing de-escalization.

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01:11:12,350 --> 01:11:14,710
First responder, we receive medical

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01:11:14,710 --> 01:11:23,750
training. Obviously, basic first aid. There's an AD in every car. We carry Narcan for overdoses.

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01:11:24,630 --> 01:11:31,490
Every individual officer now is equipped with quick plot bandages to stop severe bleeding,

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01:11:31,930 --> 01:11:38,150
as well as turnic kits. Again, they have those personal medical kits on them at all times.

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01:11:39,550 --> 01:11:48,930
As well as some of the other training we do participate with the emotionally disturbed person's response team.

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01:11:49,190 --> 01:11:52,290
We have several officers that are part of that.

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01:11:53,110 --> 01:11:58,750
But again, my officers are dealing with emotionally disturbed people on a nightly basis,

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01:11:58,970 --> 01:12:01,470
or daily basis, depending on I guess your shift.

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01:12:02,270 --> 01:12:02,970
It's constant.

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01:12:03,570 --> 01:12:06,450
They're receiving on the job training through experience.

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01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:15,760
As far as, as captain, one of my functions is internal affairs at the Sheriff's Office.

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01:12:16,420 --> 01:12:20,320
If there's any complaints or comments that people would like to make regarding the

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01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:23,360
officers, there are several avenues that they can do it.

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01:12:23,660 --> 01:12:29,100
We've had people use social media messaging through either a Twitter or a Facebook account.

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01:12:30,060 --> 01:12:36,080
They can come in, they can meet with a supervisor, they can send emails, obviously our emails

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01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:43,280
are all on the county website, they can make a phone call, or we've actually had them come

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01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:46,880
in through the Sheriff's App with the under Sheriff, it's going to cover what that is a

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01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:51,660
little bit later, but there's a submitted tip. Again, we have all these different mechanisms

786
01:12:51,660 --> 01:12:55,880
for someone to file if they have a complaint, or if they just want to make a positive

787
01:12:55,880 --> 01:13:02,640
comment even, we obviously receive an overwhelmingly majority of our comments are positive

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01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:04,560
and not in the form of complaints.

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01:13:07,930 --> 01:13:11,970
So our use of force policy, and I'm definitely not going to read everything on that screen,

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01:13:12,650 --> 01:13:18,830
but just to cover a couple of things, our use of force policy is dictated and mandated

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01:13:18,830 --> 01:13:22,310
by the Department of Criminal Justice Services for New York State.

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01:13:23,090 --> 01:13:31,110
It was in 2019, actually, last year, that DCGS mandated that every police agency adopt

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01:13:31,110 --> 01:13:32,390
their model policy.

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01:13:33,510 --> 01:13:42,130
So, we're already operating, our policy and our use of force is already basically under state mandate.

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01:13:43,030 --> 01:13:46,610
In those mandates that they did last year, they also did use of force training.

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01:13:46,870 --> 01:13:48,430
I do all the use of force training.

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01:13:48,630 --> 01:13:52,330
So anytime an officer uses force, we have to report to the state.

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01:13:53,050 --> 01:14:01,110
Not only the type of force that was used, but we have to give information, pedigree information,

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01:14:01,110 --> 01:14:07,090
regarding the officer, their age, their race, their sex, as well as the suspects age,

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01:14:07,250 --> 01:14:07,990
race, and sex.

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01:14:08,570 --> 01:14:13,750
And New York State, at some point, is going to start publishing that data, apparently,

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01:14:14,110 --> 01:14:17,150
on there, on one of their public websites there.

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01:14:18,630 --> 01:14:24,450
Again, not only does New York State dictate our use of force, but also through case law,

804
01:14:25,550 --> 01:14:29,110
through Supreme Court cases, New York State Court of Appeals cases.

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01:14:29,770 --> 01:14:38,710
You see up there, Grandverse Conner, that was one of the big Supreme Court cases that just established objective reasonableness.

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01:14:38,990 --> 01:14:48,570
Is it reasonable for the officer to use force and are the circumstances where the officer experience warranted that force was used in those circumstances?

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01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:59,840
Prohibited use of force. Again, all these prohibited use of force were all part of, well they've been a part of our policy.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:06,500
For years now, but they were again emphasizing last year's changes.

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01:15:09,010 --> 01:15:29,530
So the prohibitive use of force, you can't use force as a punishment to extract any item from someone's internal body parts without a warrant, to coerce a confession. So it's not like you see on TV where, you know, the officer closes the blinds and gets the phone book out or anything like that.

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01:15:29,530 --> 01:15:38,710
Also keep in mind is all felony interrogations and all DWI arrests are filmed at the Sheriff's Office.

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01:15:39,570 --> 01:15:49,030
So if there's a felony interrogation, it's on video and if we're processing the DWI arrests inside the Sheriff's Office, it's also a video recorded.

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01:15:50,490 --> 01:15:56,830
It's also prohibited to use force to obtain blood, saliva, urine or bodily fluids from an

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01:15:56,830 --> 01:15:59,970
individual for a test in without a cord order.

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01:16:02,670 --> 01:16:07,050
Again, force cannot be used against a person who is handcuffed to restrain unless it is used

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01:16:07,050 --> 01:16:12,250
to prevent injury, escape, or otherwise overcome active or passive resistance posed by the

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01:16:12,250 --> 01:16:19,610
subject. And then the biggest one is chokehold, strangleholds, any neck restraints.

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01:16:20,350 --> 01:16:22,130
Those are strictly prohibited.

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01:16:26,380 --> 01:16:29,700
We have a duty to intervene. Again, we've always had a duty

819
01:16:29,700 --> 01:16:35,100
to intervene. This is nothing new. Obviously, last year, the state also emphasized that in

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01:16:35,100 --> 01:16:40,600
their policy revisions. Basically, it says that if an officer witnesses another officer

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01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:45,340
use and force that they deem and appropriate, it is their responsibility to intervene in that

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01:16:45,340 --> 01:16:53,860
action, regardless of rank, and then that officer who witnessed that incident is also required

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01:16:53,860 --> 01:16:59,940
to report that to a supervisor, even if they have to claim the chain of command if, say, for

824
01:16:59,940 --> 01:17:03,860
example, the supervisor was the person using that inappropriate force.

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01:17:08,220 --> 01:17:09,660
So these are just some,

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01:17:09,660 --> 01:17:18,660
One of the statements that we've heard made recently is, you know, police use

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01:17:18,660 --> 01:17:20,400
resist and arrest and obstruction.

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01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:23,400
They're made up charges that we use all the time.

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01:17:23,700 --> 01:17:28,160
So I wanted to touch on some statistics, all right.

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01:17:29,240 --> 01:17:36,720
So if you take away our traffic stops, we answer almost 22,000 calls a year.

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01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:42,800
And out of those 22,000 calls, we've made 997 arrests.

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01:17:43,340 --> 01:17:48,060
Now that's not individuals, that's a rest, so you may have an individual that has several charges.

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01:17:48,560 --> 01:18:01,100
But if you do this statistics on that, that's less than, well, it's right around 4.5% of the calls that we respond to actually result in an arrest.

834
01:18:02,180 --> 01:18:07,780
Again, just more stats about a little over 1,000 motor vehicle accidents.

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01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:09,440
Traffic stops.

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01:18:09,740 --> 01:18:17,500
We have about a little over 6,000 traffic stops and out of that almost 4,000 tickets are

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01:18:17,500 --> 01:18:17,940
issued.

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01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:25,380
Again, if you're looking at the stats there or whatever, that's tickets issued.

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01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:31,080
When you have say we have 81 DWI arrests, there's several tickets issued to one

840
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:37,280
individual in a DWI arrest. It could be the vehicle and traffic violation and then you have the DWI

841
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:43,580
citations that go along with it. But even that if you're looking at the number of stops,

842
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:50,500
and the number of tickets issued, you know there's only a 63% chance you're going to get a

843
01:18:50,500 --> 01:18:57,620
ticket issued and again I would argue that that's actually lower in the individual's favor

844
01:18:58,540 --> 01:19:05,020
Because a lot of the tickets, you get people that get a lot of tickets from one stop.

845
01:19:05,380 --> 01:19:09,960
They just have a vehicle, or they are suspended, the vehicles suspended, they have no insurance.

846
01:19:11,500 --> 01:19:19,040
Again, and again, the tickets themselves, a good majority of those tickets come from that directive enforcement,

847
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:25,940
that the state enforces or through grant, zero tolerance in specific areas.

848
01:19:25,940 --> 01:19:31,080
again, the goal is safety, it's to reduce those accidents, reduce the seriousness of those

849
01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:35,320
accidents, and take away the contributing factors of those accidents.

850
01:19:37,060 --> 01:19:46,200
But last year, out of all that 997 arrests, only 19 obstruction of obstructing government

851
01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:50,660
administrations, so basically it's interfering with a police officer trying to do their job,

852
01:19:50,660 --> 01:20:02,300
And only 12 resistant arrest. Again, if you're a stats person, that's roughly 1.2% of every arrest resulted in a resistant charge.

853
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:13,000
Okay. To me, that's pretty profound that at a 997 arrest, we only had people resist us 1.2% of the time.

854
01:20:14,380 --> 01:20:20,560
It's a extremely profound illustration, again, that our officers are good at talking to people.

855
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:22,360
We're good at that de-escalization.

856
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:29,120
We're good at selling a product and a rest that no one wants to buy, but we still sell it.

857
01:20:32,740 --> 01:20:36,760
So one of the most important things, obviously, is officer wellness and health.

858
01:20:37,540 --> 01:20:45,080
These are just some pictures of some of the events that we've participated in over the years.

859
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:50,540
If the middle one there is a softball tournament that we do every year, obviously this year

860
01:20:50,540 --> 01:20:53,280
because of COVID, they were unable to do it.

861
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:54,280
The torch run.

862
01:20:55,860 --> 01:20:57,860
We also do an annual award ceremony.

863
01:20:58,420 --> 01:21:02,700
Again, it's important for officers to receive that positive reinforcement that they're doing

864
01:21:02,700 --> 01:21:08,960
a good job and that the good things that they do that are above and beyond are recognized.

865
01:21:10,560 --> 01:21:16,080
Also, because of the nature of the jobs that we do, we participate in critical incident

866
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:17,160
debriefing.

867
01:21:17,340 --> 01:21:22,500
We as police officers see things that people shouldn't see, and unfortunately, we tend

868
01:21:22,500 --> 01:21:23,960
to see it on every day basis.

869
01:21:24,420 --> 01:21:29,220
So sometimes it's important for officers to be able to talk to their peers, as well as, you

870
01:21:29,220 --> 01:21:34,680
know, counselors and things like that, to make sure that they're sort in through the emotions

871
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:36,260
and things that they're experiencing.

872
01:21:36,260 --> 01:21:43,060
One of the other biggest pieces of officer wellness and health is officer safety and officer

873
01:21:43,060 --> 01:21:43,660
equipment.

874
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:50,280
We make sure that our officers have the best equipment that we can provide to them within

875
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:52,240
the resources that we have available.

876
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:59,820
I mentioned a little bit before as far as the personal medical kits, the quick pot, bandages,

877
01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:02,400
the turnic kit, all that's important.

878
01:22:02,400 --> 01:22:06,600
But not only that, we have additional body armor and the trunks for active shooters.

879
01:22:06,700 --> 01:22:12,560
We have ballistic helmets, we have gobags, all these things encourage so that the officers

880
01:22:12,560 --> 01:22:15,400
know that we're doing everything we can to keep them safe.

881
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:25,640
In 2018, we had our first school resource officer at the Portland County Sheriff's Department.

882
01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:28,280
We're contracted with O.C. embossies.

883
01:22:29,860 --> 01:22:35,120
Officer Barbara, her responsibility is not only the main campus, the McAvoy campus, which

884
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:41,300
group 13 in Portlandville, but we also have the two campuses, the Portland Alternative School,

885
01:22:41,480 --> 01:22:46,440
and the Seven Valley's New Tech Academy, which are within the city of Portland.

886
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:52,040
One of the things to emphasize is that Officer Barbara's role is not to be the authoritarian

887
01:22:52,040 --> 01:23:04,120
figure. She does not make a rest at the school. If she had a case where it was looking to be

888
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:10,660
to sign another officer to that. Her role is the mentor to be there not only for the safety

889
01:23:10,660 --> 01:23:16,980
of the kids, but also that the kids feel safe going to her. And if she was the one that was viewed

890
01:23:16,980 --> 01:23:22,300
as the Punisher or the enforcer, kids aren't going to necessarily feel comfortable approaching her.

891
01:23:22,820 --> 01:23:26,620
So we want to build that again that community trust.

892
01:23:29,620 --> 01:23:32,160
Our K9 program currently we have two K9s.

893
01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:38,060
We have Frankie who is assigned to Sergeant Kim the Tolai and Freddy who is assigned to Officer

894
01:23:38,060 --> 01:23:39,220
Dean Strickland.

895
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:42,860
Our canines are trained in tracking.

896
01:23:43,480 --> 01:23:47,580
This means it's tracking.

897
01:23:48,300 --> 01:23:51,260
It can be not only a suspect but also a lost individual.

898
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:55,640
We don't release the dog and the dog chases someone down in this case.

899
01:23:56,300 --> 01:24:01,400
This is the dogs are trained by ground disturbance and they can track human set.

900
01:24:01,400 --> 01:24:07,200
So if we have a point of last contact, see if we're a lost child or a lost person in the woods,

901
01:24:07,540 --> 01:24:11,200
the dog can actually track that individual through that area.

902
01:24:11,940 --> 01:24:14,140
Our dogs are also trained in article search.

903
01:24:14,940 --> 01:24:18,600
Again, if I were to take my cell phone and throw it out in a field,

904
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:22,600
the dogs are going to be able to find that cell phone

905
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:26,600
because it's human-fresh scent that doesn't belong in that field.

906
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:33,100
Okay, so that helps with evidence collection if we had someone say toss something from a motor vehicle or whatever

907
01:24:33,100 --> 01:24:40,420
If we have the general area, and it hasn't been disturbed by other people, the dog will be able to find items

908
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:48,220
Like I said, they do demonstrations all the time and it's it's pretty impressive of how they're quickly they're able to find these articles

909
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:52,220
The dogs are also trained in narcotics searches

910
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:53,360
obviously

911
01:24:53,360 --> 01:25:04,840
the are trained in a wide variety of narcotics, just a kind of a sidebar. If New York State

912
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:11,080
at some point legalizes marijuana because the dogs are trained to seek marijuana, it

913
01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:16,540
will render both those dogs narcotics searches useless. Okay? Because now the dog is

914
01:25:16,540 --> 01:25:25,180
going to hit on a substance that is now legal, okay. So if we get to that point, and again,

915
01:25:25,440 --> 01:25:30,980
if the taxpayers are governing officials choose to get to that point, one impact it will

916
01:25:30,980 --> 01:25:36,080
have on law enforcement is every narcotics dog in New York State that is currently marijuana

917
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:40,700
trained is now going to be useless in that area. And you're going to have to reintroduce new

918
01:25:40,700 --> 01:25:43,300
that aren't trained in marijuana detection.

919
01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:52,620
And then both dogs are trained in what they call handler protection.

920
01:25:52,980 --> 01:25:58,720
So if the officer got forbid needed the dog to protect the officer,

921
01:25:59,420 --> 01:26:02,840
they have means to let the dog out of the car

922
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:04,860
if they were being attacked by a suspect,

923
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:07,220
and the dog will defend the officer.

924
01:26:07,220 --> 01:26:08,080
We

925
01:26:11,980 --> 01:26:14,860
also have a navigation patrol at the sheriff's office.

926
01:26:16,300 --> 01:26:22,580
Not only do we do patrol with navigation, we teach the border safety course.

927
01:26:24,340 --> 01:26:29,200
We teach other courses as far as just an educational course every year.

928
01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:33,200
We go teach to all the local schools.

929
01:26:33,380 --> 01:26:40,520
They have a little event set up where they go through different stations.

930
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:44,340
one of which is always voter safety and whatnot.

931
01:26:45,580 --> 01:26:48,700
Our two main bodies of water that we patrol is

932
01:26:48,700 --> 01:26:50,320
Dwyer Park, Leather York Lake,

933
01:26:51,100 --> 01:26:55,080
and then because part of Skinny Atlas is in

934
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:56,940
Courtland County, part of Skinny Atlas Lake,

935
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,020
it actually gives us through an navigation

936
01:26:59,020 --> 01:27:01,720
law jurisdiction over the entire lake.

937
01:27:02,100 --> 01:27:03,720
So we have overlapped jurisdiction

938
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:05,880
with the other counties as well.

939
01:27:08,180 --> 01:27:10,280
Again, the navigation patrol,

940
01:27:10,280 --> 01:27:18,220
they not only do patrol but they do rescue operations and a system other agencies as necessary.

941
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:27,380
Stone will be able patrol. We actually have four stone wheels, two of which have been there longer

942
01:27:27,380 --> 01:27:31,500
at the sheriff's office I think than I have but they're still running.

943
01:27:33,140 --> 01:27:41,580
That map that looks very confusing and looks just like a lot of lines. That is actually

944
01:27:41,580 --> 01:27:48,460
through New York State. That was actually from the New York State website. So it just shows

945
01:27:48,460 --> 01:27:54,160
you that we have a lot of arteries of Somalbeal Trail of State trails that go through our

946
01:27:54,160 --> 01:28:02,460
county that it's important that we patrol. Obviously one of the other things is just like

947
01:28:02,460 --> 01:28:08,560
automobiles, there's Somalbeal accents and the only way to get to those accents sometimes is

948
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:11,340
I know it will be because they're well off into the state land.

949
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:21,380
We have security functions at the Portland County office building as well as several of

950
01:28:21,380 --> 01:28:29,700
the local courts, Portlandville, Marathon, Virgil, and sometimes some of the other courts

951
01:28:29,700 --> 01:28:32,580
if they've got trials going on will contract with us.

952
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:39,820
We cover that security and those courts security with 13 part-time officers who are retired

953
01:28:39,820 --> 01:28:44,300
officers from the Sheriff's office, so we're able to provide that service to the local

954
01:28:44,300 --> 01:28:48,080
courts and as well as the county office building here.

955
01:28:52,630 --> 01:28:58,850
We do have a shared tactical response team with the Courtland City Police.

956
01:29:00,010 --> 01:29:08,350
We had entered into a joint venture a few years back just because the City Police was

957
01:29:08,350 --> 01:29:15,270
have in some trouble staff and enough tactical response officers. Now just to emphasize

958
01:29:15,270 --> 01:29:21,450
although our tactical response team trains often they're not actually used very often.

959
01:29:21,850 --> 01:29:29,090
One of the most common use of them is you know doing an entry on what is deemed a

960
01:29:29,090 --> 01:29:38,290
high-risk narcotics warrant okay and again that happens rarely. Most of the time it is

961
01:29:38,290 --> 01:29:45,390
Again, for that officer safety response, some of the more recent instances when we had one

962
01:29:45,390 --> 01:29:52,010
of the Portland City Police officers was shot, just down the block here, obviously tactical

963
01:29:52,010 --> 01:29:55,630
teams from several agencies responded to that incident.

964
01:29:56,610 --> 01:29:59,970
Not only to secure the scene, but also...

965
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:19,180
Participated in rescue operations because there were people still in the apartment below, with a suspect was, and the person that was in that residence, at least one of them was wheelchair bound, and I believe the other was on oxygen, so it was an important rescue operation to get them out of there.

966
01:30:22,460 --> 01:30:31,720
We have an accident investigation team. I'm actually the head of that. We have eight members. What we do is we investigate any fatal motor vehicle accidents.

967
01:30:32,820 --> 01:30:36,580
as well as any serious physical injury accidents.

968
01:30:37,740 --> 01:30:42,620
The accident investigation team, what we're able to do, we have, we have all the equipment to

969
01:30:44,500 --> 01:30:46,460
digitally measure the scene.

970
01:30:47,280 --> 01:30:51,660
We do a series of photographs, we collect evidence to determine cause

971
01:30:51,660 --> 01:30:55,820
and in some cases fault and in some cases even criminal liability,

972
01:30:56,340 --> 01:30:59,860
whether or not the person that fault actually committed a crime.

973
01:31:01,160 --> 01:31:09,460
Fortunately, we've been lucky where we only have a couple of those a year again, knock

974
01:31:09,460 --> 01:31:15,720
on wood. One of the benefits of COVID and everyone staying inside is that it seems like

975
01:31:15,720 --> 01:31:20,040
our accidents have reduced because there's less people on the road.

976
01:31:23,160 --> 01:31:23,880
We have our criminal

977
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:25,060
investigation division.

978
01:31:27,240 --> 01:31:31,020
So one of the things that this is just some photos and I'm going

979
01:31:31,020 --> 01:31:35,820
get into some specifics, what the criminal investigation division actually does.

980
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:46,240
But that middle photo and I can touch briefly just because it was obviously in the press.

981
01:31:48,020 --> 01:31:49,380
That was off the traffic stop.

982
01:31:49,460 --> 01:31:52,420
That's four pounds of methane and feta means.

983
01:31:53,780 --> 01:31:55,120
I'm just a simple traffic stop.

984
01:31:55,240 --> 01:31:57,680
Again, people say, well, why do you do traffic stops?

985
01:31:57,680 --> 01:32:03,420
why is it you're just going out there and harassing me because I'm a speed and no traffic

986
01:32:03,420 --> 01:32:12,400
stops lead to other things okay not only did you have that large narcotics arrest but that

987
01:32:12,400 --> 01:32:21,860
led to an arrest in a homicide in California again all by a simple traffic violation and the

988
01:32:21,860 --> 01:32:30,080
officers doing a hell of a job, not only making the stop, but from there getting to that point.

989
01:32:30,700 --> 01:32:36,300
And that's a lot of drugs to get off the street and that's important that obviously the most

990
01:32:36,300 --> 01:32:39,040
important thing is that there's a murder and now off the street.

991
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:44,140
So, like I said, traffic stops are vital to law enforcement.

992
01:32:44,140 --> 01:32:52,790
Our criminal investigation division, again, it's staffed by the Lieutenant Six Investigators.

993
01:32:53,890 --> 01:32:55,730
Some of the specialty assignments,

994
01:32:57,950 --> 01:33:02,750
we have one investigator that's assigned to, actually,

995
01:33:03,070 --> 01:33:08,110
we have two that's assigned to evidence, one assigned to just general investigations.

996
01:33:08,530 --> 01:33:13,710
We have a juvenile investigator, an narcotics investigator, and a welfare fraud investigator.

997
01:33:13,710 --> 01:33:22,010
The juvenile investigator, obviously their case load, since New York State, with raised the

998
01:33:22,010 --> 01:33:26,730
age, increase in the criminal liability age now up to 18,

999
01:33:28,930 --> 01:33:30,890
it has, it has, you know, risen

1000
01:33:30,890 --> 01:33:32,190
their case load exponentially.

1001
01:33:33,470 --> 01:33:41,510
So now for the purposes of crimes, you know, 17 and 18 year olds are now juveniles

1002
01:33:41,510 --> 01:33:47,490
on the law. So obviously, there's a lot more case load now for the juvenile investigator.

1003
01:33:49,130 --> 01:33:57,630
juvenile investigators, they're also especially trained. Now just because we have individual

1004
01:33:57,630 --> 01:34:03,970
assignments, most of our investigators are cross-trained. So we have backups, we have numerous

1005
01:34:03,970 --> 01:34:09,570
people that are trained in evidence, we have numerous people that are trained in juvenile investigations,

1006
01:34:09,570 --> 01:34:13,870
even if they're not assigned to that necessary role.

1007
01:34:15,210 --> 01:34:20,350
One of their primary functions is interviews, not only interview and of suspects, again,

1008
01:34:20,510 --> 01:34:26,190
felony investigations, they're recorded interviews, but they're also trained in forensic

1009
01:34:26,190 --> 01:34:26,810
interviews.

1010
01:34:27,130 --> 01:34:34,330
So if you have child victims, we obviously partnership with the CAC, where we do interviews,

1011
01:34:34,330 --> 01:34:40,570
child friends, again, interviews for any crimes that may have been committed against a child.

1012
01:34:42,370 --> 01:34:47,450
Our investigators do crime scene processing, evidence collection, search warrant preparation,

1013
01:34:48,390 --> 01:34:54,190
and, again, all felony investigations, and addition to felony investigations, any complicated

1014
01:34:54,190 --> 01:34:59,590
investigation that is just time-consuming that the patrol officer who, again, is going from

1015
01:34:59,590 --> 01:35:04,590
all the call doesn't have the time and the expertise to track down in this

1016
01:35:04,590 --> 01:35:10,850
very follow-up information. One of the things with now we live in in the age

1017
01:35:10,850 --> 01:35:15,270
of computers in the social media world we have in more and more investigations

1018
01:35:15,270 --> 01:35:20,350
involve in social media that involves church warrants preservation orders and

1019
01:35:20,790 --> 01:35:25,830
a lot of these social media companies are outside New York State and they're

1020
01:35:25,830 --> 01:35:30,250
not necessarily cooperative with law enforcement. They really make you go through the

1021
01:35:30,250 --> 01:35:35,530
rigors and our investigators have to be trained on what needs to be done in order to

1022
01:35:35,530 --> 01:35:41,550
solicit that information. So that is my portion. I'm going to turn it over to

1023
01:35:44,070 --> 01:35:45,830
Thank you for your time.

1024
01:35:46,390 --> 01:35:47,190
Good night.

1025
01:35:52,650 --> 01:35:53,510
Hi, I'm Bud Rig.

1026
01:35:53,950 --> 01:35:55,130
I'm your under sheriff.

1027
01:35:55,690 --> 01:35:56,510
I've been with the department.

1028
01:35:57,330 --> 01:35:58,390
I'm just over 25 years.

1029
01:35:59,750 --> 01:36:00,710
It was raised in Homer.

1030
01:36:01,390 --> 01:36:02,690
I'll keep it real short.

1031
01:36:02,830 --> 01:36:04,050
It's simple in the interest of time.

1032
01:36:04,290 --> 01:36:05,610
Hopefully we can get some questions.

1033
01:36:07,130 --> 01:36:09,350
I'm going to be going over the last division

1034
01:36:09,350 --> 01:36:11,450
and the smallest division of the sheriff's office.

1035
01:36:12,050 --> 01:36:12,810
The civil division.

1036
01:36:13,530 --> 01:36:16,310
It's made up of three sworn police officers.

1037
01:36:16,410 --> 01:36:21,910
One of them being a sergeant who oversees the civil, the records, and also fills in the rope

1038
01:36:21,910 --> 01:36:23,350
patrol as a supervisor.

1039
01:36:24,150 --> 01:36:29,550
We have two county police officers that work in the civil department that are not only trained

1040
01:36:29,550 --> 01:36:35,790
as police officers, but they're also trained in civil school as well.

1041
01:36:35,790 --> 01:36:43,190
We have one civil clerk and one records clerk in there as well.

1042
01:36:44,710 --> 01:36:51,790
The civil functions are serving civil papers, evictions, income executions, family court,

1043
01:36:52,010 --> 01:36:55,890
mail proceeding, subpoena, process and service for instance summons.

1044
01:36:56,470 --> 01:37:01,050
They serve an average over 2,000 papers a year.

1045
01:37:01,050 --> 01:37:07,270
The handle between 1.21.5 million dollars a year goes through our office.

1046
01:37:07,870 --> 01:37:13,530
It's the only division that decually generates revenues, so we have a fees for serving papers,

1047
01:37:14,490 --> 01:37:20,170
and we collect poundage income executions and property executions.

1048
01:37:20,290 --> 01:37:28,150
We generate roughly about $100,000 right now in revenues for the counties that are turned back

1049
01:37:28,150 --> 01:37:29,390
forward to the county.

1050
01:37:32,010 --> 01:37:38,850
Some of the records functions for records management, they do pistol permits, year to date

1051
01:37:38,850 --> 01:37:41,910
we've done 170 pistol permits,

1052
01:37:44,770 --> 01:37:47,550
seal orders, I'll take one minute just to talk about seal

1053
01:37:47,550 --> 01:37:56,750
orders, seal orders, as almost become a full-time job, as the laws and the thought process

1054
01:37:56,750 --> 01:38:02,350
This comes, I mean most of the traffic tickets are sealed now, a lot of felony charges,

1055
01:38:02,850 --> 01:38:09,810
misdemeanor charges are sealed, we have over 100 a week coming in now as opposed to

1056
01:38:09,810 --> 01:38:12,110
we wouldn't do that in a couple of months, years ago.

1057
01:38:13,530 --> 01:38:18,850
We also process the free-to-virtration requests because most of those requests have to deal

1058
01:38:18,850 --> 01:38:19,610
with our records.

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01:38:21,530 --> 01:38:26,730
We do, we re-institute a handicap parking permits, this is a great service, especially

1060
01:38:26,730 --> 01:38:31,910
for our seniors, they like to, you know, it's easier for them to come to us to get their parking

1061
01:38:32,750 --> 01:38:38,590
permits, re-nude and their new ones. We also manage the sex offender registry and we offer

1062
01:38:38,590 --> 01:38:46,110
notary services as well. We have monthly reporting that goes into the state. It's the U to find

1063
01:38:46,110 --> 01:38:51,750
crime report, which covers a lot of, you know, most of the arrests and things that we do. So domestic

1064
01:38:51,750 --> 01:38:56,450
violence, adult and juvenile dress, also involved injuries or killings,

1065
01:38:56,770 --> 01:39:02,410
arson's homicide, hate crimes, the use of forest, DWIs, and domestic.

1066
01:39:03,910 --> 01:39:09,710
So, it's a lot of work for small staff, really it's, I get an entry clerk in that

1067
01:39:09,710 --> 01:39:11,650
sergeant that are handle in that record speech.

1068
01:39:15,220 --> 01:39:18,800
So, other net, I'd like to talk a little bit about community programs and events.

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01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:23,640
I know I'm rushing through this, but I'll take any emails later to answer any questions.

1070
01:39:23,640 --> 01:39:29,860
So these are a lot of programs that we go to, the sheriff, and I were very committed to being

1071
01:39:29,860 --> 01:39:30,940
engaged with the community.

1072
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:35,480
So we try and hit as many events that go on and the county is possible.

1073
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:40,080
Beyond that, we've got a fire installation dinners, we've got a town board meetings.

1074
01:39:40,460 --> 01:39:43,140
We think it's important to stay engaged with the community.

1075
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:48,060
Just to go over, there's just a few of the things that we do.

1076
01:39:48,060 --> 01:39:50,720
So we'll be ringing the bells.

1077
01:39:51,260 --> 01:39:54,940
We do that one day, a lot of our staff volunteered.

1078
01:39:55,580 --> 01:39:57,780
The ring the bells for badges and bells, coffee

1079
01:39:57,780 --> 01:39:58,740
with the cop.

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01:39:59,320 --> 01:40:02,280
Captain Durks mentioned a torch room, cops on top.

1081
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:05,140
And almost any of that you can see.

1082
01:40:05,240 --> 01:40:07,100
We go into schools, open houses,

1083
01:40:10,120 --> 01:40:10,960
and most of us

1084
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:11,640
would go on over.

1085
01:40:11,640 --> 01:40:14,700
So I won't take too much time on that.

1086
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:16,680
Child safety seat program.

1087
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:21,500
And we have officers that are trained and certified to do proper installation and fitting

1088
01:40:21,500 --> 01:40:22,480
of car seats.

1089
01:40:23,220 --> 01:40:26,700
And we work with the parents, and especially the new parents come in, they can do that

1090
01:40:26,700 --> 01:40:27,200
by appointment.

1091
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:30,520
And we do that at some of the community events as well.

1092
01:40:32,060 --> 01:40:37,840
It's a great program, people take advantage of it, we work with the county and grant funds

1093
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:41,220
to supply those to the public.

1094
01:40:42,820 --> 01:40:50,800
Drug take-back was a program that was actually started through one of our partners,

1095
01:40:51,180 --> 01:40:54,120
Cortland area communities, the care, started it.

1096
01:40:54,180 --> 01:40:58,080
It's been a huge success in a real positive thing for our community.

1097
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:01,680
There's three KTS throughout the community.

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01:41:02,120 --> 01:41:03,560
You can see the picture in the center.

1099
01:41:03,940 --> 01:41:06,440
There's a KTS that's actually in the lobby of the Sheriff's Department.

1100
01:41:06,440 --> 01:41:12,160
So, if anybody needs to get rid of medications that are no longer a news that they don't need,

1101
01:41:12,240 --> 01:41:15,360
if something happened to a loved one, and you just need to get rid of these medications,

1102
01:41:15,580 --> 01:41:17,040
you can bring them there, drop them off.

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01:41:17,420 --> 01:41:22,440
We also, throughout the year, will stage events where you can do a drive-in event.

1104
01:41:23,500 --> 01:41:29,120
And we've taken thousands of thousands of pounds of drugs that could have hit the streets

1105
01:41:29,120 --> 01:41:30,720
and dispose of them properly.

1106
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:32,380
So, it's a great event.

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01:41:32,380 --> 01:41:36,020
and we're thankful to the Courland area communities that care.

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01:41:38,560 --> 01:41:42,400
Operation Safe Child is another program that was started.

1109
01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:47,640
It's the New York State program that was started out of the Governor's Office for Child Safety.

1110
01:41:48,380 --> 01:41:53,540
So we do this, it's special events, fairs and big events to County.

1111
01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:56,160
So it's a great thing for parents to have.

1112
01:41:56,280 --> 01:41:57,520
They can bring their children in.

1113
01:41:57,980 --> 01:42:02,280
We do digital fingerprints, high resolution photography.

1114
01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:15,180
We get all the child information, it's all printed on a card that you have within minutes so that you can create it in the event of something that ever happens.

1115
01:42:15,780 --> 01:42:22,880
Big success in the community allows that we have thousands of these cards that we've gone through and done since we've got the equipment.

1116
01:42:24,060 --> 01:42:29,640
Project Life Saver is an international program that we're part of.

1117
01:42:30,180 --> 01:42:36,700
It's for being able to design and be able to track at risk populations.

1118
01:42:37,660 --> 01:42:44,440
People that are likely to be wandering off and may get lost due to a cognitive condition.

1119
01:42:45,760 --> 01:42:49,740
So there's a small tracking device that's given to the individual.

1120
01:42:51,280 --> 01:42:55,500
and it's got a chip inside of it that we can track.

1121
01:42:56,060 --> 01:42:57,800
So we have multiple ways to track that.

1122
01:42:57,820 --> 01:43:03,120
If somebody winds up missing, it sends an impulse every few seconds.

1123
01:43:03,660 --> 01:43:04,360
So we can track it.

1124
01:43:04,360 --> 01:43:05,420
We can send a car out.

1125
01:43:05,500 --> 01:43:08,380
We have equipment to locate the device.

1126
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:10,800
If it gets to the point where we can't locate it,

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01:43:10,800 --> 01:43:12,060
and we have to call it a helicopter.

1128
01:43:12,280 --> 01:43:15,840
We have equipment to put it in a helicopter to do a broad search.

1129
01:43:16,300 --> 01:43:18,440
This just gives pieces of mind to families.

1130
01:43:18,440 --> 01:43:21,080
that's something they can sign up for.

1131
01:43:21,500 --> 01:43:24,840
Right here, we work with off-savaging.

1132
01:43:25,700 --> 01:43:27,720
Plays a big role in this as well.

1133
01:43:28,580 --> 01:43:32,120
But it just gets peace of mind to families when their children

1134
01:43:32,120 --> 01:43:35,500
or loved ones with issues have a problem

1135
01:43:35,500 --> 01:43:37,200
that wander off so they don't get lost.

1136
01:43:40,780 --> 01:43:41,900
Stop DWI.

1137
01:43:42,420 --> 01:43:43,960
We do a lot of education.

1138
01:43:44,220 --> 01:43:46,820
We go into schools and special events.

1139
01:43:46,820 --> 01:43:54,280
We have interactive equipment to engage the kids and adults to try and reduce the number of DWIs.

1140
01:43:54,980 --> 01:43:56,280
So most of our staff are trained.

1141
01:43:56,400 --> 01:43:57,960
We have multitudes staff that can go out.

1142
01:43:58,520 --> 01:44:00,520
We have simulators and games.

1143
01:44:01,300 --> 01:44:02,540
You can see the go card upstairs.

1144
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:04,520
There are different goggles and the use.

1145
01:44:04,700 --> 01:44:11,340
It shows different levels of intoxication and how it alters your ability to function.

1146
01:44:11,340 --> 01:44:18,480
So it's a great program, we do it at the college, we do it at schools, and throughout community of us.

1147
01:44:21,260 --> 01:44:23,060
Community partners is huge.

1148
01:44:23,480 --> 01:44:28,360
This doesn't even justify the entire list.

1149
01:44:29,100 --> 01:44:31,000
Captain talked about drug treatment court.

1150
01:44:31,160 --> 01:44:32,780
He's actually a member of Captain Lynch.

1151
01:44:34,200 --> 01:44:36,460
It's been very instrumental.

1152
01:44:36,460 --> 01:44:40,820
So the reentry and transition council knew there has been great.

1153
01:44:41,340 --> 01:44:46,660
He now sits at the Winstead Science Chemical Dependency Subcommittee for years.

1154
01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:54,000
I sat on that committee and actually when we talk about the Justice League, it was actually

1155
01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:59,980
team out of chemical dependency committee, we were taking up the...

1156
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:05,860
Jail Services was taking up so much of that. We did an offshoot, created a new group, and it was called

1157
01:45:05,860 --> 01:45:12,100
the Jail Services Committee, which was a group started off at 5, group of 20, group of 60, and

1158
01:45:12,100 --> 01:45:16,500
we got involved with the cultural intercept, and that's what led to Justice League today.

1159
01:45:17,380 --> 01:45:22,980
Speak up, court-lin area, communities, the care, and suspension, I mentioned, court-lin county,

1160
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:28,420
court, advisory group from emergency preparedness. We meet with regularly, we have people on that,

1161
01:45:29,020 --> 01:45:33,420
Criminal Justice Advisory Board, we sit on that as well.

1162
01:45:34,540 --> 01:45:35,620
I'm trying to save the board.

1163
01:45:35,920 --> 01:45:39,340
Captain Dirkson talked about, so it's just a lot of things.

1164
01:45:39,460 --> 01:45:46,460
Rotary and the list goes on and it's been the sheriff's push

1165
01:45:46,460 --> 01:45:51,800
that the more the community related that we are,

1166
01:45:52,440 --> 01:45:55,620
the better it's going to be for all of us.

1167
01:45:58,280 --> 01:46:05,960
College internships, we work both with Court and State and TC3 to do internships, we do

1168
01:46:05,960 --> 01:46:11,680
ride along with police officers, they observed 911, they observed in the jail, they get

1169
01:46:11,680 --> 01:46:16,560
credits for that, and potentially that helps us when we're talking about job recruitment.

1170
01:46:17,720 --> 01:46:22,260
These people get to see firsthand what our agency has to provide, hopefully they see other

1171
01:46:22,260 --> 01:46:26,100
agencies, they're attracted to ours, and it's just a great partnership.

1172
01:46:27,820 --> 01:46:34,380
The community engagement, like I mentioned all of us from the fair, to youth groups, to

1173
01:46:34,380 --> 01:46:38,860
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, we try and hit as much as we possibly can.

1174
01:46:39,460 --> 01:46:44,340
If asked, we try and speak a different events very solid, we turn people down.

1175
01:46:44,860 --> 01:46:49,680
A lot of the times, as our staff were so limited, they actually volunteered, and I think

1176
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:54,540
that shows our commitment, not just from the sheriff and myself, but the people that are

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01:46:54,540 --> 01:46:59,500
out there doing it for the volunteer they're tying to do these functions.

1178
01:47:02,220 --> 01:47:05,720
How do you contact us and how do you make communication with us?

1179
01:47:05,940 --> 01:47:08,760
First is the Sheriff's app that's relatively new.

1180
01:47:09,020 --> 01:47:11,780
Sheriff felon started this year or two ago.

1181
01:47:12,260 --> 01:47:17,480
It's an interactive tool that you can download on your phone and you keep up to date.

1182
01:47:17,480 --> 01:47:19,240
You can get alerts from us.

1183
01:47:19,380 --> 01:47:21,020
You can make comments in there.

1184
01:47:21,660 --> 01:47:24,900
If you have a loved one in jail, you can look up if they're there.

1185
01:47:24,900 --> 01:47:26,740
It's just a great interactive tool.

1186
01:47:26,940 --> 01:47:29,260
If there's alerts that are going out into the community,

1187
01:47:29,540 --> 01:47:31,760
whether it be weather-related or a road closed,

1188
01:47:32,900 --> 01:47:34,320
things are constantly going out there.

1189
01:47:34,420 --> 01:47:35,980
It's a great interactive tool.

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01:47:37,140 --> 01:47:39,840
And if you go to download our app today,

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01:47:40,100 --> 01:47:42,900
you look up Portland County Sheriff App on your app store,

1192
01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:44,260
and you'll find it there.

1193
01:47:44,400 --> 01:47:45,320
It's a great tool.

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01:47:45,660 --> 01:47:46,540
We've had great success.

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01:47:47,120 --> 01:47:49,100
And more and more people are getting on at all the time.

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01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:52,260
We also had social media.

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01:47:52,260 --> 01:48:00,860
You can contact us through Facebook or Twitter, Captain Dirkson, stays on top of that, so we're very timely in our responses.

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01:48:02,820 --> 01:48:05,680
Also, we're reaching out to that younger generation.

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01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:08,320
It's no longer the newspaper.

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01:48:09,200 --> 01:48:12,300
It's all these interactive tools with cell phones and computers.

1201
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:17,140
So we're trying to stay up to date and connect it and engage with the community.

1202
01:48:23,440 --> 01:48:24,060
We're missing something.

1203
01:48:27,700 --> 01:48:29,060
Oh, that's our website, is all right.

1204
01:48:29,060 --> 01:48:36,100
So, this is our website, so if you go to Court of Accounting, Public Safety, it's Court of Accounting

1205
01:48:36,100 --> 01:48:43,060
Sheriff's website, and you can also contact us for there, it gives us all of our contact

1206
01:48:43,060 --> 01:48:47,580
information, phone numbers, emails, anything else to need.

1207
01:48:47,800 --> 01:48:54,180
We also put out an annual report every year that's available for you and it's posted on the

1208
01:48:56,180 --> 01:49:00,940
I know I'm going kind of fast, but I'm trying to save a little bit of time here.

1209
01:49:01,700 --> 01:49:12,680
Just a brief touch on the executive order 203, which is a governor issue, the executive order,

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01:49:13,400 --> 01:49:23,420
to mandate that local municipalities review how they do business and collaborate with communities to develop a plan to better serve our community.

1211
01:49:23,420 --> 01:49:26,820
It gives a list of not going to go through the entire list.

1212
01:49:27,160 --> 01:49:30,760
This is something that the sheriff and I have been committed to since we've been in office.

1213
01:49:32,400 --> 01:49:36,160
We try and build that collaboration with our community partners.

1214
01:49:36,980 --> 01:49:41,060
We work with over 100 partners at a regular basis.

1215
01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:43,160
So we're excited about this.

1216
01:49:43,240 --> 01:49:47,880
I think it really formalizes what we've been doing for a long time anyway.

1217
01:49:49,840 --> 01:49:51,620
And it's a good thing.

1218
01:49:51,620 --> 01:49:58,880
So we have plans to do this and to meet with other individuals to get more input to see

1219
01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:05,600
how do you think we're doing and what can we do better, to better serve our community.

1220
01:50:10,720 --> 01:50:12,020
So moving forward,

1221
01:50:15,000 --> 01:50:18,300
there's additional training we're going to do, Captain Durkson talked

1222
01:50:18,300 --> 01:50:23,860
about implicit bias and de-esculation training, the entire agency will be going through that

1223
01:50:23,860 --> 01:50:34,420
this month. We'll continue to find, you know, relevant, helpful training that suits the current climate needs for our staff.

1224
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:46,080
We'll expand our efforts to develop and quality recruits and bring them in, get them the best training they can.

1225
01:50:46,800 --> 01:50:48,180
from all demographics,

1226
01:50:51,260 --> 01:50:55,400
which is like Captain Thurkson said earlier, it's not just on the road

1227
01:50:55,400 --> 01:51:01,300
division side, but in correction side it's becoming a more and more difficult task to do.

1228
01:51:01,560 --> 01:51:04,420
We get less, less applicants, less qualified applicants.

1229
01:51:05,240 --> 01:51:10,000
So we have to kind of change the way we're doing business to try and bring that back around

1230
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,680
to the way it used to be so we can get the people that we need.

1231
01:51:13,880 --> 01:51:18,960
And again, we're going to work very hard to continue to build our relations with our community partners.

1232
01:51:20,700 --> 01:51:29,700
That's probably the most important thing as we continue to move forward and prepare to develop the plans and

1233
01:51:32,770 --> 01:51:36,090
policies that we need to serve the community in the best way we can.

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01:51:39,240 --> 01:51:43,800
So again, we have different ways to get a hold of this that we don't answer your questions

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01:51:43,800 --> 01:51:44,260
tonight.

1236
01:51:44,400 --> 01:51:50,420
Please feel free not only to contact Savannah or myself by email but you can contact any

1237
01:51:50,420 --> 01:51:54,820
of our administration, everything is listed on the website, you can go to Facebook or Twitter

1238
01:51:54,820 --> 01:51:59,740
and we'll get back to you and I appreciate everybody taking the time.

1239
01:51:59,760 --> 01:52:02,380
I know it's been a long draw-out event.

1240
01:52:02,580 --> 01:52:06,780
I want to leave a little time for questions and I'll share if you have anything more.

1241
01:52:06,780 --> 01:52:13,480
Yeah, so we'll keep that moving, and if you got questions coming in, we'll take those at this time.

1242
01:53:08,290 --> 01:53:12,290
We had one statement coming from Legislator Nual.

1243
01:53:14,510 --> 01:53:16,950
I don't do it here.

1244
01:53:21,090 --> 01:53:29,670
He had stated that there was one individual named in the Portland Standard that was released five to six times due to Bell Reform, how is that helping?

1245
01:53:34,380 --> 01:53:39,220
Well, obviously it's not helping the community, it's helping the individual.

1246
01:53:41,280 --> 01:53:47,360
There was good aspects of Belliform and bad aspects of Belliform and we're going to have to work through

1247
01:53:47,360 --> 01:53:56,660
Belliform brings us, unfortunately our hands are kind of tied with those scenarios and that's one of many that we've actually seen.

1248
01:53:57,200 --> 01:53:59,980
That's the negative side, one of the negative sides of Belliform.

1249
01:54:12,110 --> 01:54:16,050
I'm not seeing any other questions. We'll give everybody a minute to answer.

1250
01:54:21,270 --> 01:54:22,550
What are you guys? You're good.

1251
01:54:35,560 --> 01:54:42,720
Amy Bugs said great job with the presentation of the department is clear that each person is proud and well versed in all of what goes on there.

1252
01:54:42,880 --> 01:54:44,780
Very proud to have you all serve and protect us.

1253
01:54:47,530 --> 01:54:56,150
Danielle W says question for the sheriff. Can you share insights into why the number of traffic stops are about 1.5 times higher than tickets issued.

1254
01:54:56,690 --> 01:54:58,170
Also, thank you for sharing this.

1255
01:55:02,840 --> 01:55:08,480
Yeah, basically what it breaks down to is the officers have discretion on each stop that they make.

1256
01:55:08,980 --> 01:55:11,940
We don't mandate that every car gets stopped to get a ticket.

1257
01:55:12,100 --> 01:55:16,460
I mean, you know, there's a lot of times the whole stop involved goes into it.

1258
01:55:16,480 --> 01:55:18,220
It might be something that's a young driver.

1259
01:55:18,780 --> 01:55:20,840
It's something that looked like it was innocent enough.

1260
01:55:21,140 --> 01:55:24,560
And that the feeling didn't really rise to the occasion.

1261
01:55:24,740 --> 01:55:26,840
You felt you needed a ticket for.

1262
01:55:28,040 --> 01:55:30,540
Or it's one of those where this is real blatant and dangerous.

1263
01:55:30,540 --> 01:55:36,580
and it needs to go to that. The captain Durfson mentioned too that a lot of our tickets

1264
01:55:36,580 --> 01:55:43,520
not that we're not about writing tickets, but our whole philosophy isn't just a rest in

1265
01:55:43,520 --> 01:55:49,420
right tickets. There's times where it needs, there's times where they're not. And it's one of

1266
01:55:49,420 --> 01:55:53,580
those where it's really kind of leave it up the officer to the situation and trying to handle

1267
01:55:53,580 --> 01:56:00,520
what best fits the situation. I know I get a lot of emails and context by a lot of our

1268
01:56:00,520 --> 01:56:06,780
public that are really kind of fed up with the traffic on the roads in that and we're

1269
01:56:06,780 --> 01:56:10,980
doing our best to get out there as much as we can but I think the majority of them

1270
01:56:10,980 --> 01:56:16,340
would even understand that not everybody on that that got stopped that day necessarily

1271
01:56:16,340 --> 01:56:22,480
needed to take it but that's my opinion that's how we do it right now okay thank you

1272
01:56:22,480 --> 01:56:28,180
legislator Richard Stacks said the week 11 vacancy what positions are they for?

1273
01:56:28,180 --> 01:56:31,420
There are all line officers in the correction division.

1274
01:56:43,270 --> 01:56:47,230
Legislator Harbin says what are the next steps to move further with this Governor's

1275
01:56:47,230 --> 01:56:48,810
EO203 Proclamation?

1276
01:56:50,690 --> 01:56:57,570
We plan to keep moving forward with meeting with more community groups and having as much

1277
01:56:58,270 --> 01:57:04,770
discussions as we possibly can to see what different opinions the public has for us and

1278
01:57:04,770 --> 01:57:06,390
what they think we should be doing.

1279
01:57:21,050 --> 01:57:25,590
Sharon says thank you for your partnership with the mental health department. I appreciate the dedication

1280
01:57:25,590 --> 01:57:29,090
That's from Sharon McDougall, our community services director.

1281
01:57:29,730 --> 01:57:31,690
Well, thank you. I know we

1282
01:57:32,750 --> 01:57:38,620
Staying touched with each other regularly. We're all dealing with a lot of the same same type of issues and I appreciate all our support

1283
01:57:45,690 --> 01:57:52,550
From legislators back again pistol permits 170 and parking permits for handicap are these not duplicated with city

1284
01:57:52,550 --> 01:57:53,130
Please

1285
01:57:55,020 --> 01:58:00,020
I guess I don't fully understand what they're asking the pistol permits in parking permits.

1286
01:58:00,780 --> 01:58:03,100
They're the handicap parking permits, possibly.

1287
01:58:03,620 --> 01:58:04,660
They're definitely not duplicate.

1288
01:58:06,340 --> 01:58:09,180
The city actually has been real good to partner with us.

1289
01:58:10,140 --> 01:58:13,120
They do the pistol permits for the city.

1290
01:58:13,600 --> 01:58:17,280
We take care of the county and actually it's worked out real well.

1291
01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:19,120
Obviously it saves me that much more.

1292
01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:21,860
The state police also do pistol permits.

1293
01:58:22,960 --> 01:58:31,380
So we kind of share in that. I'm proud to say I think we take a commanding lead on how many we get, but on the same token I appreciate everybody's help with that.

1294
01:58:31,400 --> 01:58:32,700
But no, that's not a duplicate.

1295
01:58:33,760 --> 01:58:34,620
A duplicate issue.

1296
01:58:34,900 --> 01:58:36,460
Is there a man in the way that's parsed out?

1297
01:58:37,020 --> 01:58:38,440
Is it based on what we have?

1298
01:58:38,740 --> 01:58:40,240
What is your attitude that information?

1299
01:58:41,060 --> 01:58:41,720
Where would you be?

1300
01:58:41,900 --> 01:58:46,000
In the city, it's my understanding that if they live in the city, it would go there.

1301
01:58:46,000 --> 01:58:53,020
As far as all the patients go to the county clerk and then she divides them up to the two agencies

1302
01:58:53,020 --> 01:59:01,160
me and me and the state police, we have been in a position where I've had people where we could stay up as good as

1303
01:59:01,160 --> 01:59:05,820
probably as we ever have. So we've been pushing this hard as we can because we know those get behind

1304
01:59:05,820 --> 01:59:09,180
quickly. So we've been pretty fortunate to stay up.

1305
01:59:16,680 --> 01:59:20,280
Legislator Harvin says the 5.9% of the county population are

1306
01:59:20,280 --> 01:59:23,940
people of color, but they make up 18% of all arrests in the county.

1307
01:59:24,380 --> 01:59:27,900
Can the sheriff provide more information about the implicit bias training?

1308
01:59:31,380 --> 01:59:34,660
I mean, as far as the percentages, I couldn't tell you if that's right or not.

1309
01:59:34,800 --> 01:59:37,120
I have to look at how I'll take his word for that.

1310
01:59:37,360 --> 01:59:40,540
But as far as the implicit bias training,

1311
01:59:41,340 --> 01:59:43,240
it's my whole department, both divisions,

1312
01:59:43,460 --> 01:59:49,880
actually even Secretary of Staff will be going through that at the end of this month.

1313
01:59:49,880 --> 01:59:50,800
so

1314
02:00:05,420 --> 02:00:08,120
The company that we use that have to look up in right

1315
02:00:10,620 --> 02:00:12,540
now.

1316
02:00:20,750 --> 02:00:30,710
We have Danielle W's that's for recruitment. Has there been any thoughts to looking outside of the county to bring qualified diverse individuals in? This is something I learned.

1317
02:00:30,710 --> 02:00:31,230
Sorry.

1318
02:00:32,950 --> 02:00:36,690
That the Tulsa Oklahoma Police Department has started doing and they've had success.

1319
02:00:36,790 --> 02:00:39,390
The individuals are required to relocate to the area.

1320
02:00:41,610 --> 02:00:47,570
We do recruit, like I'll say, the county and that, and we would look at somebody coming in from a different state.

1321
02:00:47,950 --> 02:00:51,590
The problem is they still have to follow the civil service laws and rules.

1322
02:00:51,590 --> 02:00:53,030
So they would start there.

1323
02:00:53,490 --> 02:00:58,690
It's not like some of the other states where they could take the training from here and start here.

1324
02:00:58,690 --> 02:01:03,450
doesn't work that easy, so I'm not sure if that's exactly what she meant, but as far as

1325
02:01:03,450 --> 02:01:06,690
the quick answer, it's not as easy as I'd like to see it.

1326
02:01:07,350 --> 02:01:13,430
We here in the county for years, if we tried to make the people we hire from our community,

1327
02:01:15,010 --> 02:01:19,610
as we grow, we're seeing, at least in my opinion, I can't speak for the legislators, but we

1328
02:01:19,610 --> 02:01:26,210
know that our lists are getting smaller and we are getting more and more outside the county.

1329
02:01:27,170 --> 02:01:32,630
My rules are I have to start with applications from inside the county anyways.

1330
02:01:33,010 --> 02:01:41,470
Once we've exhausted those then I can look at the applicants from outside the county and that's basically how it works for me.

1331
02:01:44,250 --> 02:01:49,690
This is from user mark what can churches do to help connect with inmates as Christmas.

1332
02:01:49,930 --> 02:01:53,710
Cards, gifts, goodies from Reverend Catley, Catley.

1333
02:01:56,530 --> 02:02:04,850
We the only problem with corrections and I let the only share if you can touch bases, but there's very little we can actually bring in.

1334
02:02:05,150 --> 02:02:21,710
So it's kind of a double edged sword. We go out of our way to do special things this time of year as far as like usually we normally have pizza, pizza and stuff on Christmas party type stuff where we can get them but I'll let them touch bases as far as.

1335
02:02:21,710 --> 02:02:24,720
So, could you repeat that for a longer time?

1336
02:02:24,720 --> 02:02:25,300
Absolutely.

1337
02:02:26,200 --> 02:02:32,440
What can churches do to help connect with and meet this Christmas cards, gifts, goodies, etc. from Reverend Kathy Lee?

1338
02:02:33,560 --> 02:02:37,340
So, unfortunately we can't accept the cards or the cookies.

1339
02:02:37,560 --> 02:02:47,400
We do partnership with churches and we do have a pastor, Nate Wright, who is the, you know, religious advisor for our facility.

1340
02:02:47,980 --> 02:02:52,820
So, a lot of times, like the Sheriff mentioned, what we do on our own is often, we'll

1341
02:02:53,920 --> 02:02:58,260
we'll utilize resources that we have to provide, you know, some type of, you know,

1342
02:02:58,340 --> 02:03:04,460
goodies like pizza or something to the MA population. Also, a phenomenal program that they do is

1343
02:03:04,460 --> 02:03:09,180
they do come around during Christmas time, they go block the block, they talk to the

1344
02:03:09,180 --> 02:03:12,640
hidden mates here, the month is one that actually doesn't facilitate the process,

1345
02:03:12,660 --> 02:03:16,040
such as basically every year and they have what's called the Angel Tree program.

1346
02:03:16,040 --> 02:03:18,880
And what that is is a goal to all the inmates in the population.

1347
02:03:19,180 --> 02:03:23,280
They talked when they explained the program, it's offered what it is, is they say, do you have any family?

1348
02:03:23,460 --> 02:03:27,840
And how long can we assist in, you know, your incarcerated police system help you get gifts for your family?

1349
02:03:28,360 --> 02:03:32,920
You know, and they are allowed to put names on an angel tree in those church service system in their houses.

1350
02:03:33,240 --> 02:03:34,280
And their family is in the community.

1351
02:03:35,840 --> 02:03:36,340
Very nice.

1352
02:03:45,540 --> 02:03:46,740
Okay, I don't see anything.

1353
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:47,620
Oh, here we go.

1354
02:03:47,780 --> 02:03:51,720
From Legislative Harbin, does the sheriff support the use of body cams?

1355
02:03:54,660 --> 02:04:01,480
I do, um, and I would love to see us, um, get the funding to do them. I know that's probably the biggest hurdle.

1356
02:04:02,100 --> 02:04:08,040
Maybe our, uh, maybe our government will help us with that and give us some funding because I know that's a huge push.

1357
02:04:08,520 --> 02:04:16,940
It's a great thing to have. It'd be great for us. It comes with some, with some headaches for us as far as personnel and how you manage it and all that.

1358
02:04:16,940 --> 02:04:19,800
But I'm the same token. I think it's a direction where everybody's going.

1359
02:04:19,800 --> 02:04:25,900
It's just something that people expect, and I think it's a great tool for everybody.

1360
02:04:27,780 --> 02:04:28,260
Thank

1361
02:04:30,600 --> 02:04:31,080
you.

1362
02:04:31,240 --> 02:04:32,760
Both us, thank you as well.

1363
02:04:33,080 --> 02:04:33,620
Thanks, Paul.

1364
02:04:42,810 --> 02:04:43,030
Okay.

1365
02:04:43,210 --> 02:04:49,190
If there are another questions, I will put in the emails again into the chat for any further questions.

1366
02:04:52,030 --> 02:04:53,890
And if we don't, by chance, get them tonight.

1367
02:04:54,210 --> 02:04:56,510
Again, feel free to send them at another time.

1368
02:04:56,710 --> 02:04:57,210
We'll still answer.

1369
02:04:57,210 --> 02:04:57,890
Yes,

1370
02:05:04,680 --> 02:05:12,320
I want to thank the Sheriff's Department and for everybody for logging on tonight, and I hope you have a very good evening, thank you.

1371
02:05:12,380 --> 02:05:13,900
Before we close tonight's meeting.

1372
02:05:14,780 --> 02:05:16,340
I would, sorry, Savannah.

1373
02:05:17,200 --> 02:05:26,340
I'd like to thank Sheriff Helms and his department, with partnering with the Court and County Legislature in order to put it in effect.

1374
02:05:26,340 --> 02:05:32,120
the governor's executive order 203, I'd like to thank Sheriff Helms in his team for their excellent

1375
02:05:32,120 --> 02:05:38,420
presentation tonight, and for the work, his men and women do for the community of Court

1376
02:05:38,420 --> 02:05:43,760
on a daily basis. I'd also like to thank legislators who's in Wilson,

1377
02:05:45,380 --> 02:05:51,680
legislative clerk, Mulville, and deputy clerk, Hemsdad for their assistance in tonight's meeting

1378
02:05:51,680 --> 02:06:01,860
Would like to thank the community for attending this meeting tonight and being there was no further business for our Legislature tonight this meeting is adjourned

1379
02:06:06,280 --> 02:06:07,560
Thank you