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Barandino County, the nation's largest by land, leading a dedicated
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hundred and fifty two volunteers stand sentinel with eight county
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and progress. Backed by an eight hundred million dollar budget,
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build safer, stronger communities in one of America's most dynamic regions.
Thank you so much for being with us today, sheriffdkas event.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So happy to be here. It's good to see you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, you know, you are an absolute pillar of the
community and I I have nothing but gratitude for the
work that you and your deputies put in every day
to ensure that our communities are safe and guarded.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So thank you so much for that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I'm so excited because just later this week you
were going to be conducting a PRCA rodeo, So let's
jump into that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
So we do have a PRCA rodeo and it's a
sanctioned event, and what's unique about it is we are
the last stop before National Finals rodeo in Las Vegas,
so all the big competitors come out and participate in
our event. But with that being said, every bit of
the money that we receive as a result of sponsoring
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the rodeo goes to children's charities across the Inland Empire,
and we have been able to increase our donations year
after year to the tune of about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars or we're able to reinvest in kids
across the county. And while the rodeo is going on
at the rodeo rounds across the street at the park,
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we also host the Boys and Girl Scouts Jamboree and
we pay for the entire event.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh my goodness, everybody listening.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
If you're in Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, hopefully there's
still time for you to jump on board and be
a part of this. Sheriff dakas when did this event
first take place and what was the genesis of it.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So the event had actually been going on as the
Sheriff's Rodeo, and we're going back to the fifties, but
there was a hiatus until nineteen ninety nine when Sheriff
Floyd Tidwell and Sheriff Gary Penrod brought it back. We
just celebrated our twenty fifth anniversary of the rodeo last year,
so it's been going on quite a while. But when
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we re established the rodeo, that's when we came up
with the idea to make sure we're reinvesting in the community.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know, I grew up watching rodeos since I was
a little girl, going to Pico Rivera, right, and so
I absolutely love going to rodeos.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I've taken my children to several.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But for those that may not be as familiar with
what to expect at a rodeo, please share a little
bit about what a visitor can see and what events
take place.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well, we've been sold out the last two years on
all three days of the rodeo, which we're very proud of.
But I think it's because it is an experience. It's
an experience for individuals. It's experience for their families, whether
it's our vendors area, our union which is a safety
Employees Benefit Association, or SIBA. They have the kids zone.
You can go in there, you can do crafts, bouncy houses,
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I mean, you name it, pet animals. It's really an
amazing experience for a family, and we haven't even gotten
to the rodeo yet, So if you're interested in just
watching the sport, even if you're not a rodeo fan,
it's exciting watching the cowboys come out there and try
to stay on the horses and the bulls for eight seconds.
And you also have some mid shows that come out
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and you get to see the flags and a number
of things that are going on and some trick riders.
I mean, it really is a genuine go to be
at event.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, it's just an absolute experience to say the least. So, Sheriff,
do you have a favorite event?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I have a number of them. I ride my horse
at halftime, I come in with the different flags of
the sponsors and all of the different horsemen and women
that are carrying those. So I have my own little
event and usually it's me just praying that night I'm
not going to be a lawn dart off of my horse.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Wow, that is so exciting. Now are these events sold out?
And what are the days again that this event is
taking place?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So it's the last I mean the third weekend of September,
and you can get the tickets by just typing in
Shriffs Rodeo and you can purchase them online.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So for a family of four, what can the cost
what can we anticipate the cost to be.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
For a family of four, you're probably looking around seventy
somewhere into one hundred dollars, and that's just the entry
fee on average, about twenty twenty five dollars per person.
I think kids are a little less expensive.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So that's less than a ticket to Disneyland, which a
lot more fun and like very real cultural experience.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How long does the rodeo last?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, it's all three days, and generally the first two
nights they start a little bit later seventy eight o'clock
in the evening and they go in till about ten
or eleven o'clock. And then on Sunday it's earlier than
that because that's the last day of competition. But when
you mentioned it's a cultural event, it really is. You
get to see because Sheriff's department employees run this entire event.
We're very blessed with the board of supervisors let us
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do that. So it's an interaction to the community and
our sheriff's deputies where everybody's just having a really nice time,
having a chance to sit down and talk without all
the pressures of the world and just simply enjoy themselves
and their family.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And you know what makes it even better is integrating
the community. And like you just mentioned, hosting a special
event for the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. And
I'm actually a very proud mother of an Eagle Scout
and a silver award winner of the Girl Scouts. So
I I'm a huge proponent of Scouting. I was not
familiar with it until I had my own children and
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advocate for it wholeheartedly. So for anybody that's listening and
you have some young children, please explore these wonderful organizations
that actually build and develop remarkable character and values in
our young children.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So going back to.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The Sheriff's Department, sorry I had to throw that in
there for the Boy Scouts and the Girls Scouts. But
let's talk about your deputies right the heart the staff
of Semandino County Sheriff's Department. Let's talk about your recruitment
and retention efforts today. What is your department doing to
hire qualified applicants and how are you keeping existing personnel
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from leaving this beautiful county of Sanmarentino.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
So Ivett, that's probably one of the biggest challenges that
we have in law enforcement, and you mentioned it. The staff,
both our professional staff and our sworn staff, are the
heartbeat of this organization, and frankly, they do amazing things,
been with us through many of the natural disasters and
challenges that this county just seems to have to happen
based on geography because we are so big. But recruitment
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is definitely a challenge sworn staff. You see a lot
of rhetoric out there about cops. We went through the
defund the police movement, and a number of things, so
it has been a little bit hard to hire law
enforcement officers. But I am seeing a positive change in that,
and we are Our academies are getting larger and I
have plenty of room. I tend to joke with moms
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and dads and grandparents if they have some young person
living in their basement and they need some help get
them a job. I'm their guy. I love that same
thing with us the professional staff. And I'm sorry I
didn't mean to interrupt, but the professional staff, we have
a lot of entry level jobs that young people don't
tend to think about the Sheriff's Department both nine one
one dispatchers that answer those calls, those emergency calls. Our
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records clerks and our unions are are very generous and
they usually pay for college for those folks too. So
if you're looking for a way, or you're still trying
to find your path, by all means, look at the
Sheriff's Department, because I'd love to have them.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So for those that may not be familiar with Sambardino County,
because this program broadcasts internationally so it has far and
wide reach, give us an overview of San Brandino County
and it's unique assets.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
You mentioned.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know, it has very dynamic areas and can be
prone to some natural disasters or natural challenges.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Sure, well, I think that's why it's so great to
be able to work here, because it's not just the
same thing every day. So obviously, a lot of our
county borders a Los Angeles area, that's what we call
really our urban area. We're talking to Rancho Cucamonga. A
lot of that area we share with our wonderful chiefs
of police and our municipal agencies, which there's ten in
this County. And then you mentioned early on I have
fourteen contract cities. But just to give all of your
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viewers an idea, I mean, you can go up to
our local resort mountains in the wintertime, go snow skiing,
and drive the data point and be surfing in an hour.
So when you talk about the geography that this county provides,
it's pretty substantial for somebody that wants to be employed
by sam Berndino County. You can work out needles or
maybe live in Lake Havasu. I mean, that's how big
the county is. We go all the way to the
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Colorado River. So your opportunities to be in the desert
in the mountains are in a rural area, you pretty
much call the ball on how you want to live
and we can accommodate you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And so you mentioned obviously beyond becoming a deputy, there
are also various administrative level positions. What do some of
those positions look like and what does it take to qualify,
apply and win a position with the Samarandino County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Anybody that's interested, whether it's a professional staff job, And
to give you an idea, we're kind of split down
the middle. It's fifty to fifty between the folks that
help us run the place and then swarm law enforcement officers.
And we're about four thousand, eight hundred employees total. We
have plenty of openings professional jobs. It could be accountants,
where you know, you have your degree and you can
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apply that. I've got doctors and dennis and our jail counselors,
drug and alcohol counselors, social workers, you name it. And
then of course law enforcement officers. We have our own
crime lab, so forensic scientists. We need all those folks.
I'm also the corner is one of the hats that
I wear. So when we're talking about forensic doctors, lab technicians,
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it's just a vast array of anything that any person
dreams of. We can probably accommodate their visions. I've got pilots,
I mean, you name it. We're here for the public.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Talk about the job security that is attached to those positions. Obviously,
law enforcement is always going to be needed.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Absolutely, there's a tremendous amount of job security. They're also
in a county here in sam Bernardino. You hear about
all the politics and things surrounding law enforcement. But this
community supports their law enforcement. They always have I as
their share of support them because a lot of things
that we do if certainly don't look pretty. You're in
the news and you see it and report on it regularly,
but they're supported here. And the people that live in
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Samernardino County want to make sure that we have what
the county vision is and that's a place that you
want to live, work and play and it's our job
to protect it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And so for those that are considering going into a
sworn position, what does that look like and what does
it take? How long is the academy process.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So we're looking about twenty six to twenty eight weeks
now for our Sheriff's Academy, and we need folks to
come apply so much so that before they even get started,
a lot of support comes from us. So you may
even if you say you're in your thirties and you
just want a career change, or in your forties and
you want a career change, may not have been to
college or high school and studied. In a while, we
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get everybody back in sync with studying. We start working
on their physical fitness so that when day one of
the academy rolls around, they'll be successful and they'll make
it through that twenty eight weeks.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's so exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know, I follow your Facebook page and your social
media updates, and I get so excited when I see
each graduating academy class.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Sheriff tell us, what is the average number of deputies
that you graduate on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I would say the average number right now is somewhere
in the thirties, but in the upcoming academies, we're going
to reach about eighty. And again we have those open
positions to be able to accommodate that level of workforce
across this entire county. So we're pretty excited for that,
and it's interesting times. Again. I like to see these
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things turn around, and I want to make sure that
we're giving opportunities to this county. I've never seen event
more females join the Sanbardino County Sheriff's Department. Usually you
see six to ten of them graduate every academy class.
And same thing. Our demographic primarily growing in the Iland
empires the Hispanic demographic. About forty eight percent of the
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folks I hire are Hispanics, so we are certainly mirroring
our community and moving things forward and again taking care
of business and public safety.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That is so exciting and inspiring to know that the
demographic is shifting, right especially when it comes to law enforcement.
It's great to see, you know, strong men step up
to protect their community, but sometimes we need a lot
of women to represent and to reflect the community they
are protecting as well. So it's just very exciting to
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see that evolution. So with that said, Sheriff, what are
some tools that law enforcement can expect to see in
the future.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You know, these are exciting times and I'm actually talking
about some of these tools in Washington, d C. Of
all places, with our congressman and so some of the
things we're talking about is you see the usage of
drones go up in order to do counter authority against
those drones, and you can imagine there could be certain
public safety concerns surrounding drones. We're working with them to
try to get local authority to be able to control
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some of those things over sporting events than having to
always rely on our federal partners. So those are some
of the things. But when we talk about the future,
you're seeing one of our cities and my great friend,
Chief Lorenzo over in Ontario. He just did a demo
for us using a drone as a first responder. So
drones are actually flying to the call first and as
you can imagine, they go the way the crow flies,
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not through the streets. They can get on scene and
start transporting our transmitting video back to the dispat center.
So it's that much more situational awareness that a law
enforcement officer responding to the scene is going to get
A couple of my contract cities, both Victorville and Rantu
Cucamonga are on the cutting edge of these things. Victor
Villae just instituted shot spotter, so when a gunshot goes off,
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starts turning cameras to the area, We pick up video
footage of license plates, maybe somebody running, and it just
helps us with leads. And I know it's helped us
in sixteen cases there in Victorville alone, So really exciting times,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And so as a homeowner, I know that I've had
some scares with our home, our personal property, and we've
had to put in calls about concerns about people being
on the property that shouldn't be there. And one of
the main things that law enforcement would recommend, and this
was about ten years ago, is have some type of video,
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have some type of surveillance. So being able to provide
that surveillance in real time by dispatching those fast acting
drones is phenomenal. When do you anticipate bringing that online
for all of Sanmardino County?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Well, we're looking at that right now, especially for our
county areas, about getting our own pilots and being able
to expand that. We're actually in the costing phase, if
you will, to see what that looks like. We already
have the capabilities, but it's more of a call out
type of capability with our SWAT team that they have
those drones and we can use them not just in
SWAT calls, but other surveillance type events. Also, search and
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rescue is a big area. You know, our county is
so big with the mountains and the deserts. Inevitably somebody
is going to get lost and being able to use
that equipment to cover the ground that fast helps us
recover people. You know, you've heard AI. AI is a
thing in law enforcement too. Our body worn cameras they
actually incorporate AI. And if you were a victim. Then
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the kind of the example you gave about somebody trespassing
on property, the deputies actually start dictating to their cameras
that I'm here, I'm talking to I at Walker. She
was the reporting party. She left our home at this time.
She came back and she found this that her front
door had been kicked and she was apparent victim of
a burglary. But what happens is when they plugged that
body worn camera in, it only pulls information out of
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your call, but it starts to create their police report.
So in trying to make you whole again, getting it
to insurance companies faster, and those types of things. Again,
it's just really exciting times. And we're working in Congress
and here in the state to try to make sure
the proper privacy regulations are in place and at the
same time law enforcement doesn't get left out of the technology.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Boom absolutely, and all the while you're also creating a
whole new workforce development pipeline for drone operators, you know
uas operators, which I'm sure is going to be a
great recruitment effort. How many of these drones do you
anticipate putting online when you get the green light.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So obviously our county being so big, just looking at
each one of the fourteen contract cities and developing things
on them. So that's fourteen maybe smaller drone programs, or
maybe I get one large enough one where I can
provide the service to the different ones. However, if you
look at police departments and you think about the Titanic,
the sheriff's department as a whole, it's kind of hard
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to turn the big Titanic. So you may see Victorville,
Rancho and some of those other more independent police departments,
just like my partner there in Ontario, they can adopt
the technology a little faster. Where I'm working over a
vast region and you're talking about governance and policies and
different communities and making sure you meet the mark. It's
a little bit more challenging in a big organization, but
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it's certainly my hope that you're going to start seeing
that soon. Again. I kind of think of it as
a force multiplier.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You know, it's very exciting, and I'm familiar with Samoni's
you know, International Airport's UAS program, which is churning out
young drone operators.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
To see because this is the future, right not only
of law enforcement, but also healthcare, possibly delivery services from
Uber or door dash, or delivering medications from the pharmacy.
What do you anticipate the force multiplier effect or the
force multiplying effect will be when you establish and activate
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this new drone program.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Well, let me I'll just give you an example because
you kind of mentioned the package delivery right, Well, that
sounds great for the company, the Amazons of the world
and what they're doing. Where is the crossover and public safety? Well,
think about it. What do you hear reports on porch
pirates right somebody that's stolen those packages with drones you
now deliver to the backyard where they can't be stolen.
So those are conversations we're actually having in our community,
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particularly out in our Rialto area right now with the
local Amazon distribution center. Who's going to start those deliveries
and we're going to be a test subject for that.
You also mentioned, you know, Sambardino International Airport and the
work they're doing training drone pilots. They also do a
tremendous amount of drone testing. So who would have thought
the Inland Empire on the cutting edge of technology is
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really forwarding this movement and really making it move very quickly,
but in a managed way where these things are tested,
like I talked about privacy concerns and a number of things.
So again, it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It really is. And like you said, who would have
thought all of this innovation.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Would be coming out of San Berdandino County, But after
five years of reporting on everything that's happening in Sanberdino County,
it really is no surprise because our county is winning
awards for innovation for you know, just every category you
name it. Semandino County is earning the award on.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
A national level.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So it's very exciting for everybody that's listening and it's
not familiar with Semondino County or knows what is happening
or how advanced Semandino County has become because of the
leadership through those like Sheriffdikis.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Please listen to the past episodes of this.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Program and you will be absolutely blown away by the progress,
the innovation and just the teamwork that it takes to lead, protect,
elevate this region. It's very exciting. Please talk about the
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mental health crisis. Right, you can't watch the news without
seeing the result of somebody experiencing a mental health crisis
and having it negatively impact their neighbors or innocent bystanders.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
So if it unfortunately, we've had some major challenges in
this county. Really a person being in crisis then ultimately
and ends up in some type of use of force
with law enforcement, never ever anything pretty, but sometimes very necessary. However,
if we get to those people before the crisis occurs,
that's where the business we want to be in. And
this is something that I've tried to champion, probably more
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so than just about any other thing. And it's kind
of weird, why would a cop champion those things. I
have a HOPE team. You and I've talked about that.
It's the Homeless Proactive Homeless Outreach and Proactive Enforcement team.
Their goal is to try to get people housed, but
we also contact the same people over and over again,
and we find out that many of them have comorbidity
with substance abuse and mental health. So I've championed Proposition
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thirty six, Senate Bill forty three a number of these
mental health tools given to law enforcement, Laura's Law, where
we can take those folks and it's not grabbing them
and putting them in jail. You know you're here, Oh,
cops want job security. That's not even close to the case.
Want is them to be helped. So a lot of
these tools get them before the court and the court
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can then send them to different areas where they're not
in jail, they're not decompensating, but they're actually getting the
treatment and the help they need, or even going as
far as some level of conservatorship. So in our county,
we're doing that. We actually meet with the Department Behavioral Health,
the cases law Enforcement introduces, we're now having these meetings.
If they aren't being transferred through, we're asking the why now,
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and we're keeping those statistics so that we can hold
each other accountable to making sure we get these people help.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
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point one million residents spanning eight county and fourteen contract
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patrol stations. The department's eight hundred million dollar budget fuels
a mission that goes beyond law enforcement, building safer, stronger
communities Thank you so much for making the time to
be with us here, Sheriffdikish.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
My pleasure of it as always wonderful.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So prior to the break, we were talking about the
mental health crisis and how basically law enforcement is the
first line of addressing and responding to these events. And
you also alluded to when you mentioned some public policy
initiatives that you are pushing forward. Please talk a little
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bit about what those are and what we need to
know to ensure that we are creating a safer community for.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Regions.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Sure, well, obviously it's a complicated issue in terms of
mental health. Both were not just law enforcement, but families
trying to introduce maybe their family members that are having
some sort of crisis or some sort of issue. But
what I call law enforcement and the reason we're so
involved in wind in this process, as I call it
street view. We meet these crisises in the street when
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people are in crisis and needing help. A lot of
times the families call us first, and you've seen that
spell out very positively and also very negatively. And maybe
the person was in crisis and had a weapon, and
then you see a use of force. So what our
philosophy is how do you get in front of that
And a lot of our legislators have given us Senate
Bill forty three where we're taking those instances and actually
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getting those people now instead of taking them just well
you've heard the term fifty one fifty to a hospital
that actually requires not just a short evaluation and then
turning the person out to the street. But what is
the through put to the courts to get these people
the help that they need. And that's something that's already passed.
We don't need to vote on it. It was one
of our legislators that actually put that through, giving law
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enforcement that tool. Here, the County Board of Supervisors partnered
with me Laura's law, the ability for law enforcement to
do these mental health type cases the evidence before the
court so that the Department of Behavioral Health can come
alongside and take those people and try to get them
into some of these different medical situations for help rather
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than the person going to jail because there was an
associated minor crime or something with it. You've heard of
Proposition one, which the governor supported in terms of getting
a lot of the funding out. You've seen our local
Board of Supervisors that invest that in a lot of
mental health and homeless programs. I'm even working on using
jail property. A lot of times when you try to
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build these places in communities, you get, you know, not
in my backyard. So it's using jail property to be
able to build some of these things because some of
these folks are coming and going from those areas. But
more of a treatment type facility, not the traditional jail environment.
And used to be when somebody came in with mental health,
we didn't have medical records or anything from the outside
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ind so we would ask them what prescription they were taking,
and our doctors would try to figure out what their
mental illness was as a result of the medications they
were taking. And I'm happy to say now there's information
sharing going on with the doctors in the jail. So
heaven forbid if I were to come in with a
mental health problem into the jail. Now the doctors know
what my history is and how to properly treat me
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and try to stand people up. You're seeing innovations long
term injectables that last for thirty days, so people that
are not taking their medication now they can stay out
in the community longer before there's a crisis. I mean,
there's so many good things going on in this area,
but the base argument is capacity. We need more and
more capacity so the court can sentence these people to
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treatment rather than sentence into jail.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And that's exactly what it's about.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
As you mentioned, when it comes to mental health and
behavioral health infrastructure, it's building out that infrastructure and allowing
people to have those services to let them reintegrate safely
in the community versus you know, having them be in
a jail.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Right, shareff, share what the.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Dynamic is of your current incarsories when it comes to
being medicated and how it is that the Semino County
Sheriff's Department manages that in a setting of being incarcerated.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So event actually, the question you asked is a big
one for all of us, and it's a difficult management problem.
But approximately two thirds of the inmates that we do
incarcerate have some type of mental health issue along with
whatever they're actually doing time for. So if you want
to take two thirds, our average daily population runs on
average somewhere between fifty two hundred and fifty eight hundred
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inmates in our jail system. So I remember, two thirds
of those folks are being treated, and we couldn't do
it without great partners like Liberty Healthcare that is our
mental health service provider in there. They do a phenomenal
job both in group treatment settings individual settings. And this
all occurs in the jail. And a lot of people
tend to think people don't get good medical care in there,
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but they get great medical care and really a full
evaluation from the time of being booked in the jail,
both on the mental health side and the physical side
of whatever health problems they may not have been taking
care of themselves for years until they actually come into
our jail system.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And I'm aware of your goal to reduce recidivism, right,
and that can only be done when these behavioral and
mental health resources and investments and infrastructure is implemented to
prevent the case of having committed a crime that lands
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you incarcerated. In addition to using existing infrastructure, be it
facilities or land that is owned by the San Berdandino
County Sheriff's Department, speak to the various partners or conversations
that you're having to truly address.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
This sure So the Board of Supervisors are partnered with
me in this. They all have different assignments as well
as we all do. Some of them are on the
Interagency Homelessness Council Supervisor baka Supervisor Hagman. They're dealing directly
with homelessness. I think they just just finished an adjunct
group that they had. One of my best partners is
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the County Hospital Believing or Not, the CEO, Andrew Goldfrak.
We talk regularly because he's impacted by the capacity of
police bringing people with these illness mental illness issues and
taking up emergency room beds. So as we build this
capacity and we talk how do we get the throughput?
And it's a lot more complicated when you go from
the street view that I said we had all the
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way through the doctors and then into the courts and
then ultimately where the capacity exists. So we're all working together,
and I'm proud of this county for being able to
do that. But it probably is one of the biggest
social problems that's affecting really everybody in the United States,
across the United States, but certainly in the state as
it relates to try and help people out that have
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and are suffering from mental illness.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Right, which leads us to the next talking point.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Which are random acts of violence that seem to be
on the rise.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
In addition to.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Supporting these mental and behavioral health objectives, what else is
the sembody Dane County Sheriff's Department doing to proactively protect
our communities.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
So one of the biggest things you vet, and this
is something that we try to advertise regularly when you're
talking about these random acts of violence, is getting out
to every community member because you never know if you
might have that piece of information to actually solve a
problem before it happens. But see something, say something campaigns.
We have an intelligence division here at the Sheriff's Department.
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We are linked in with our federal partners, our state partners,
and all the rest of our local partners. We work
together on these things. And the term I like to
use is the answer is yes before the phone rings.
Because we all know each other. We don't worry about
trying to introduce each other to the street. When the
crisis has occurred, we know and we know we're coming
to each other's aid. And it's really partnering with the
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community to try to get out in front of those
things and also monitoring this human intelligence side and trying
to get in same thing with social media, to see
if we can actually identify any potential actors out there
and get in front of this. And unfortunately, we see
it play out with our school kids, you know, a
threat or bringing a gun on campus and those types
of things. We work with our school resource officers and
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our school police departments to try to be able to
prevent these things. And if they hear it, then we
immediately start to partner with them and investigate it. And
it's a big moving target. And with social media it's
you know, it's really hard the way people communicate, it's fast,
and it's vast, So staying with that, it is certainly
a challenge that law enforcement's trying to keep up with.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So in your campaign, see something, say something? Is there
a hotline besides the traditional nine to one one where
callers can call in and potentially and hopefully in cases
where they don't want to be retaliated against, anonymously provide
this information to the Semdino County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So I would say we all have to weigh things
as to what the emergency is. Obviously, if you saw
somebody and plane clothes, it's an obvious not a law
enforcement officer, and you see some type of firearm moving
into like a business or something like that, that would
be appropriate to do a nine to one one call.
If it's something where they're seeing suspicious activity. It may
be the same car as passing a school or a
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power plant or things that just don't seem right. Then
any one of the business lines for any police department
or any sheriff's department, they can call and report that
and they will be transferred to folks like our intelligence division,
or simply that may get sent to dispatch in a
non emergency or priority call. So we can still go
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canvass that area and see if we can identify what
it is and find out, Hey, is this something very
simple and antiseptic and not suspicious, or it may be
solving a true problem before a piece of our infrastructures attacked.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right, And where can members of the community find those
business line phone numbers to reach out and share some
of that information.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
You know, we'vet the easiest ways. We all have cell
phones by all means. Just go to that search engine
type in whatever jurisdiction you're in. It'll pop up, immediately,
press that call button and it'll go through and that
probably makes it the simplest. And then, of course all
of our agencies have online websites, and there are also
things we tip. If you want to be completely anonymous,
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you can call one eight hundred we tip and leave
that message that goes directly and they route it to
the jurisdiction or the law enforcement agency where the complaint
resides at. So there are a number of things that
people can do to stay on top of protecting the community,
just with their own eyes and ears.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
That is absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
And you know, as I mentioned before, I am just
incredibly proud of your work, your deputy's work, your staff work,
the entire team that it takes to keep our community safe.
And I've heard that several of your department members are
receiving Metal of Valor awards from the California State Sheriff's Association.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Please tell us more about that.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Well, I'm pretty excited to do that because I'm actually
hosting the event here in our county as well, so
all fifty eight sheriffs. This is a special ceremony because
it's actually the sheriffs that vote on these different events
that have occurred across our state. And one of the
incidences that happened in San Berndanino County was a murder
suspect that was leaving Arizona and traveling through our county
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and the Needle Station deputies were in pursuit of this subject,
and between our Aviation division and them, they were able
to get this person stopped and safely bring them into custody.
And the valiant effort when you hear about and act
this guy was firing at the and doing a lot
of things during the pursuit. The value and effort of
all those folks involved and to bring it to still
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a peaceful conclusion is nothing short of an extraordinary which
I got to brag here for a moment. That's all
my people of it. They are really they are extraordinary
and I couldn't be more proud of them.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well, as always, my hat's off to you and to
your entire team of over four hundred and five and
fifty two members that make.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
This county safe. It's just very exciting.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
So Sheriff, tell us about programs, if any that your
department offers that community members may not know about.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Sure, well, one of the greatest ways to get involved
with us in your own community is our Citizen how
Patrol program. We actually send you to a short academy.
You get a uniform and you go out there and
you actually help the deputies. And they also provide a
service like vacation checks. While you're gone. They move things.
Our county is so big, so you can imagine documents
and things that have to go between stations or at
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the headquarters where I'm at. The citizen volunteers are always
moving these things around. Their extra eyes and ears for us.
If we have a traffic issue, they may help direct traffic,
but they get to be intimately involved with their deputies
and with their station and know what's going on in
their community. It makes everybody feel better that they're a
part of making their communities better and safer.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Oh I love that. So, who's the perfect candidate for
this program?
Speaker 4 (41:23):
You know what? It spans the entire spectrum. If you're
a very young person and maybe an explorer, which is
very similar to that where you're riding along with the
deputies and looking at a career in law enforcement. But
if you go beyond that age and you're somewhere around
the age of twenty one and you still want to
be involved, maybe you have a job elsewhere, but you're
still interested in taking care of your community all the
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way up through. We've got folks in their eighties that
are out there doing work and you see them every day,
and just an amazing set of volunteers that.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Is so exciting, and I love that we still have
a community that is dedicated and wants to invest through
volunteers to help support your efforts and the broader efforts
of the Semandino County Sheriff's Department. So with that said, Sheriff,
is there anything else you would like to place on
our radar and share with us today?
Speaker 4 (42:13):
You know, the biggest thing is just if it supporting
law enforcement right now, and again, we live in Sabardino County.
We are very well supported. But a lot of things
you hear in the media, find out for yourself, really
do the research. Don't take anything for granted based on
what you hear, because I just see so many things
in the media that get skewed one way or another. Unfortunately,
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a lot of politics are what's really kind of taking
the tone of the day. And I really believe that
in law enforcement, we're trying to protect everything that's in
the middle of the fringes and make sure that people
again that county vision a safe place to live, work
and play and everybody that's just trying to raise their
family go to work. We want to make sure that
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this is the community to do that in. We're still
one of the most affordable communities to be able to
purchase a home. I want people to want to come
here for all the opportunity that is sam Rendino.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
County, right, And as you mentioned, it's the ideal place
to work, live and play. I've raised three wonderful children.
Of course I'm going to say that because they're mine,
but I have been able to enjoy that work life balance.
And as you mentioned, an hour from anything you may
want to visit, an hour from the desert, an hour
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from the beach, an hour from the mountains, whether you
want to go skiing or go on a lake at
Lake Arrowhead, right. I mean, there's everything that you can
think of here locally, including a wonderful international airport that
is so easy to navigate Ontario, giving you guys a
shout out as well as Samnydino International Airport which has
direct flights as well. But share what some of your
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key priorities are going to be for the next six months.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Well, we talked in depth about one of them, and
it's certainly staying in the cutting edge of technology, looking
at as a force multiplier, making sure people's privacy concerns
are taking care of having the technical platforms to ride
the new technology on so we can stay in front
of it and we can be early adopters. Also, we've
done a lot of things to really, i'll call it,
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for the first time, see a level playing field in
the San Bardino County Sheriff's Department. Fortunately, coming out of
the pandemic, we all did financially much better in terms
of local government. So the deputies have some of the
best equipment that we can provide to them, So it
makes it easier for them to take care of some
of the complicated things that they're dealing with today. We
protect them better, more modern uniforms. I mean, we're moving
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all of that forward. So what I want to do
is keep that momentum, if you will, going, and then
also posture ourselves for the things that we may need
to do in the future. And customer service. It's a
big deal to me. When people have a burglary, it's
their worst day. I want to make that worse day
a little bit easier, and we have things where we're
using technology zoom like you and I are on right
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now to reach out to those victims, start the report early,
and take care of them.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
That's phenomenal, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
So let's close out the program with the final call
to action to anybody that is listening, that is exploring
or contemplating a career in law enforcement, particularly at the
Sanbrandino County Sheriff's Department Number one.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
If you want to live your dreams, come here. Whatever
you imagine we can help make possible if you're part
of our team. And frankly ivette I need them worse
than they need me. And for any person that may
be a little bit confused in their life or trying
to figure out what's going to give them purpose, come
check us out. We'd like to be part of that purpose.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
That is absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Sheriff, thank you so much for your time, for your dedication,
and especially for your leadership to ensure that we are
supported by an amazing law enforcement effort the Sambordino County
Sheriff's Department, and as you know, the residents are on
your side. We value you, we thank you, and as always,
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hats off to you.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Sheriff. I guess yep.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
We love our community event and we'll fight for him.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
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Thank you so much for being with us today, sheriffdkas event.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So happy to be here. It's good to see you.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Well, you know, you are an absolute pillar of the
community and I I have nothing but gratitude for the
work that you and your deputies put in every day
to ensure that our communities are safe and guarded.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So thank you so much for that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And I'm so excited because just later this week you
were going to be conducting a PRCA rodeo, So let's
jump into that absolutely.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
So we do have a PRCA rodeo and it's a
sanctioned event, and what's unique about it is we are
the last stop before National Finals rodeo in Las Vegas,
so all the big competitors come out and participate in
our event. But with that being said, every bit of
the money that we receive as a result of sponsoring
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the rodeo goes to children's charities across the Inland Empire,
and we have been able to increase our donations year
after year to the tune of about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars or we're able to reinvest in kids
across the county. And while the rodeo is going on
at the rodeo rounds across the street at the park,
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we also host the Boys and Girl Scouts Jamboree and
we pay for the entire event.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Oh my goodness, everybody listening.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
If you're in Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, hopefully there's
still time for you to jump on board and be
a part of this. Sheriff dakas when did this event
first take place and what was the genesis of it.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
So the event had actually been going on as the
Sheriff's Rodeo, and we're going back to the fifties, but
there was a hiatus until nineteen ninety nine when Sheriff
Floyd Tidwell and Sheriff Gary Penrod brought it back. We
just celebrated our twenty fifth anniversary of the rodeo last year,
so it's been going on quite a while. But when
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we re established the rodeo, that's when we came up
with the idea to make sure we're reinvesting in the community.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
You know, I grew up watching rodeos since I was
a little girl, going to Pico Rivera, right, and so
I absolutely love going to rodeos.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I've taken my children to several.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But for those that may not be as familiar with
what to expect at a rodeo, please share a little
bit about what a visitor can see and what events
take place.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well, we've been sold out the last two years on
all three days of the rodeo, which we're very proud of.
But I think it's because it is an experience. It's
an experience for individuals. It's experience for their families, whether
it's our vendors area, our union which is a safety
Employees Benefit Association, or SIBA. They have the kids zone.
You can go in there, you can do crafts, bouncy houses,
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I mean, you name it, pet animals. It's really an
amazing experience for a family, and we haven't even gotten
to the rodeo yet, So if you're interested in just
watching the sport, even if you're not a rodeo fan,
it's exciting watching the cowboys come out there and try
to stay on the horses and the bulls for eight seconds.
And you also have some mid shows that come out
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and you get to see the flags and a number
of things that are going on and some trick riders.
I mean, it really is a genuine go to be
at event.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, it's just an absolute experience to say the least. So, Sheriff,
do you have a favorite event?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I have a number of them. I ride my horse
at halftime, I come in with the different flags of
the sponsors and all of the different horsemen and women
that are carrying those. So I have my own little
event and usually it's me just praying that night I'm
not going to be a lawn dart off of my horse.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Wow, that is so exciting. Now are these events sold out?
And what are the days again that this event is
taking place?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So it's the last I mean the third weekend of September,
and you can get the tickets by just typing in
Shriffs Rodeo and you can purchase them online.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So for a family of four, what can the cost
what can we anticipate the cost to be.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
For a family of four, you're probably looking around seventy
somewhere into one hundred dollars, and that's just the entry
fee on average, about twenty twenty five dollars per person.
I think kids are a little less expensive.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So that's less than a ticket to Disneyland, which a
lot more fun and like very real cultural experience.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
How long does the rodeo last?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Well, it's all three days, and generally the first two
nights they start a little bit later seventy eight o'clock
in the evening and they go in till about ten
or eleven o'clock. And then on Sunday it's earlier than
that because that's the last day of competition. But when
you mentioned it's a cultural event, it really is. You
get to see because Sheriff's department employees run this entire event.
We're very blessed with the board of supervisors let us
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do that. So it's an interaction to the community and
our sheriff's deputies where everybody's just having a really nice time,
having a chance to sit down and talk without all
the pressures of the world and just simply enjoy themselves
and their family.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And you know what makes it even better is integrating
the community. And like you just mentioned, hosting a special
event for the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. And
I'm actually a very proud mother of an Eagle Scout
and a silver award winner of the Girl Scouts. So
I I'm a huge proponent of Scouting. I was not
familiar with it until I had my own children and
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advocate for it wholeheartedly. So for anybody that's listening and
you have some young children, please explore these wonderful organizations
that actually build and develop remarkable character and values in
our young children.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So going back to.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
The Sheriff's Department, sorry I had to throw that in
there for the Boy Scouts and the Girls Scouts. But
let's talk about your deputies right the heart the staff
of Semandino County Sheriff's Department. Let's talk about your recruitment
and retention efforts today. What is your department doing to
hire qualified applicants and how are you keeping existing personnel
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from leaving this beautiful county of Sanmarentino.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
So Ivett, that's probably one of the biggest challenges that
we have in law enforcement, and you mentioned it. The staff,
both our professional staff and our sworn staff, are the
heartbeat of this organization, and frankly, they do amazing things,
been with us through many of the natural disasters and
challenges that this county just seems to have to happen
based on geography because we are so big. But recruitment
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is definitely a challenge sworn staff. You see a lot
of rhetoric out there about cops. We went through the
defund the police movement, and a number of things, so
it has been a little bit hard to hire law
enforcement officers. But I am seeing a positive change in that,
and we are Our academies are getting larger and I
have plenty of room. I tend to joke with moms
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and dads and grandparents if they have some young person
living in their basement and they need some help get
them a job. I'm their guy. I love that same
thing with us the professional staff. And I'm sorry I
didn't mean to interrupt, but the professional staff, we have
a lot of entry level jobs that young people don't
tend to think about the Sheriff's Department both nine one
one dispatchers that answer those calls, those emergency calls. Our
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records clerks and our unions are are very generous and
they usually pay for college for those folks too. So
if you're looking for a way, or you're still trying
to find your path, by all means, look at the
Sheriff's Department, because I'd love to have them.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
So for those that may not be familiar with Sambardino County,
because this program broadcasts internationally so it has far and
wide reach, give us an overview of San Brandino County
and it's unique assets.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
You mentioned.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
You know, it has very dynamic areas and can be
prone to some natural disasters or natural challenges.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Talk a little bit about that.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Sure, well, I think that's why it's so great to
be able to work here, because it's not just the
same thing every day. So obviously, a lot of our
county borders a Los Angeles area, that's what we call
really our urban area. We're talking to Rancho Cucamonga. A
lot of that area we share with our wonderful chiefs
of police and our municipal agencies, which there's ten in
this County. And then you mentioned early on I have
fourteen contract cities. But just to give all of your
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viewers an idea, I mean, you can go up to
our local resort mountains in the wintertime, go snow skiing,
and drive the data point and be surfing in an hour.
So when you talk about the geography that this county provides,
it's pretty substantial for somebody that wants to be employed
by sam Berndino County. You can work out needles or
maybe live in Lake Havasu. I mean, that's how big
the county is. We go all the way to the
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Colorado River. So your opportunities to be in the desert
in the mountains are in a rural area, you pretty
much call the ball on how you want to live
and we can accommodate you.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And so you mentioned obviously beyond becoming a deputy, there
are also various administrative level positions. What do some of
those positions look like and what does it take to qualify,
apply and win a position with the Samarandino County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Anybody that's interested, whether it's a professional staff job, And
to give you an idea, we're kind of split down
the middle. It's fifty to fifty between the folks that
help us run the place and then swarm law enforcement officers.
And we're about four thousand, eight hundred employees total. We
have plenty of openings professional jobs. It could be accountants,
where you know, you have your degree and you can
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apply that. I've got doctors and dennis and our jail counselors,
drug and alcohol counselors, social workers, you name it. And
then of course law enforcement officers. We have our own
crime lab, so forensic scientists. We need all those folks.
I'm also the corner is one of the hats that
I wear. So when we're talking about forensic doctors, lab technicians,
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it's just a vast array of anything that any person
dreams of. We can probably accommodate their visions. I've got pilots,
I mean, you name it. We're here for the public.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Talk about the job security that is attached to those positions. Obviously,
law enforcement is always going to be needed.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Absolutely, there's a tremendous amount of job security. They're also
in a county here in sam Bernardino. You hear about
all the politics and things surrounding law enforcement. But this
community supports their law enforcement. They always have I as
their share of support them because a lot of things
that we do if certainly don't look pretty. You're in
the news and you see it and report on it regularly,
but they're supported here. And the people that live in
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Samernardino County want to make sure that we have what
the county vision is and that's a place that you
want to live, work and play and it's our job
to protect it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And so for those that are considering going into a
sworn position, what does that look like and what does
it take? How long is the academy process.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
So we're looking about twenty six to twenty eight weeks
now for our Sheriff's Academy, and we need folks to
come apply so much so that before they even get started,
a lot of support comes from us. So you may
even if you say you're in your thirties and you
just want a career change, or in your forties and
you want a career change, may not have been to
college or high school and studied. In a while, we
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get everybody back in sync with studying. We start working
on their physical fitness so that when day one of
the academy rolls around, they'll be successful and they'll make
it through that twenty eight weeks.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
That's so exciting.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You know, I follow your Facebook page and your social
media updates, and I get so excited when I see
each graduating academy class.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Sheriff tell us, what is the average number of deputies
that you graduate on a regular basis.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I would say the average number right now is somewhere
in the thirties, but in the upcoming academies, we're going
to reach about eighty. And again we have those open
positions to be able to accommodate that level of workforce
across this entire county. So we're pretty excited for that,
and it's interesting times. Again. I like to see these
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things turn around, and I want to make sure that
we're giving opportunities to this county. I've never seen event
more females join the Sanbardino County Sheriff's Department. Usually you
see six to ten of them graduate every academy class.
And same thing. Our demographic primarily growing in the Iland
empires the Hispanic demographic. About forty eight percent of the
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folks I hire are Hispanics, so we are certainly mirroring
our community and moving things forward and again taking care
of business and public safety.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
That is so exciting and inspiring to know that the
demographic is shifting, right especially when it comes to law enforcement.
It's great to see, you know, strong men step up
to protect their community, but sometimes we need a lot
of women to represent and to reflect the community they
are protecting as well. So it's just very exciting to
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see that evolution. So with that said, Sheriff, what are
some tools that law enforcement can expect to see in
the future.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
You know, these are exciting times and I'm actually talking
about some of these tools in Washington, d C. Of
all places, with our congressman and so some of the
things we're talking about is you see the usage of
drones go up in order to do counter authority against
those drones, and you can imagine there could be certain
public safety concerns surrounding drones. We're working with them to
try to get local authority to be able to control
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some of those things over sporting events than having to
always rely on our federal partners. So those are some
of the things. But when we talk about the future,
you're seeing one of our cities and my great friend,
Chief Lorenzo over in Ontario. He just did a demo
for us using a drone as a first responder. So
drones are actually flying to the call first and as
you can imagine, they go the way the crow flies,
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not through the streets. They can get on scene and
start transporting our transmitting video back to the dispat center.
So it's that much more situational awareness that a law
enforcement officer responding to the scene is going to get
A couple of my contract cities, both Victorville and Rantu
Cucamonga are on the cutting edge of these things. Victor
Villae just instituted shot spotter, so when a gunshot goes off,
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starts turning cameras to the area, We pick up video
footage of license plates, maybe somebody running, and it just
helps us with leads. And I know it's helped us
in sixteen cases there in Victorville alone, So really exciting times,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And so as a homeowner, I know that I've had
some scares with our home, our personal property, and we've
had to put in calls about concerns about people being
on the property that shouldn't be there. And one of
the main things that law enforcement would recommend, and this
was about ten years ago, is have some type of video,
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have some type of surveillance. So being able to provide
that surveillance in real time by dispatching those fast acting
drones is phenomenal. When do you anticipate bringing that online
for all of Sanmardino County?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Well, we're looking at that right now, especially for our
county areas, about getting our own pilots and being able
to expand that. We're actually in the costing phase, if
you will, to see what that looks like. We already
have the capabilities, but it's more of a call out
type of capability with our SWAT team that they have
those drones and we can use them not just in
SWAT calls, but other surveillance type events. Also, search and
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rescue is a big area. You know, our county is
so big with the mountains and the deserts. Inevitably somebody
is going to get lost and being able to use
that equipment to cover the ground that fast helps us
recover people. You know, you've heard AI. AI is a
thing in law enforcement too. Our body worn cameras they
actually incorporate AI. And if you were a victim. Then
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the kind of the example you gave about somebody trespassing
on property, the deputies actually start dictating to their cameras
that I'm here, I'm talking to I at Walker. She
was the reporting party. She left our home at this time.
She came back and she found this that her front
door had been kicked and she was apparent victim of
a burglary. But what happens is when they plugged that
body worn camera in, it only pulls information out of
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your call, but it starts to create their police report.
So in trying to make you whole again, getting it
to insurance companies faster, and those types of things. Again,
it's just really exciting times. And we're working in Congress
and here in the state to try to make sure
the proper privacy regulations are in place and at the
same time law enforcement doesn't get left out of the technology.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Boom absolutely, and all the while you're also creating a
whole new workforce development pipeline for drone operators, you know
uas operators, which I'm sure is going to be a
great recruitment effort. How many of these drones do you
anticipate putting online when you get the green light.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So obviously our county being so big, just looking at
each one of the fourteen contract cities and developing things
on them. So that's fourteen maybe smaller drone programs, or
maybe I get one large enough one where I can
provide the service to the different ones. However, if you
look at police departments and you think about the Titanic,
the sheriff's department as a whole, it's kind of hard
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to turn the big Titanic. So you may see Victorville,
Rancho and some of those other more independent police departments,
just like my partner there in Ontario, they can adopt
the technology a little faster. Where I'm working over a
vast region and you're talking about governance and policies and
different communities and making sure you meet the mark. It's
a little bit more challenging in a big organization, but
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it's certainly my hope that you're going to start seeing
that soon. Again. I kind of think of it as
a force multiplier.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It really is.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
You know, it's very exciting, and I'm familiar with Samoni's
you know, International Airport's UAS program, which is churning out
young drone operators.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's very exciting.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
To see because this is the future, right not only
of law enforcement, but also healthcare, possibly delivery services from
Uber or door dash, or delivering medications from the pharmacy.
What do you anticipate the force multiplier effect or the
force multiplying effect will be when you establish and activate
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this new drone program.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Well, let me I'll just give you an example because
you kind of mentioned the package delivery right, Well, that
sounds great for the company, the Amazons of the world
and what they're doing. Where is the crossover and public safety? Well,
think about it. What do you hear reports on porch
pirates right somebody that's stolen those packages with drones you
now deliver to the backyard where they can't be stolen.
So those are conversations we're actually having in our community,
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particularly out in our Rialto area right now with the
local Amazon distribution center. Who's going to start those deliveries
and we're going to be a test subject for that.
You also mentioned, you know, Sambardino International Airport and the
work they're doing training drone pilots. They also do a
tremendous amount of drone testing. So who would have thought
the Inland Empire on the cutting edge of technology is
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really forwarding this movement and really making it move very quickly,
but in a managed way where these things are tested,
like I talked about privacy concerns and a number of things.
So again, it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It really is. And like you said, who would have
thought all of this innovation.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Would be coming out of San Berdandino County, But after
five years of reporting on everything that's happening in Sanberdino County,
it really is no surprise because our county is winning
awards for innovation for you know, just every category you
name it. Semandino County is earning the award on.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
A national level.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So it's very exciting for everybody that's listening and it's
not familiar with Semondino County or knows what is happening
or how advanced Semandino County has become because of the
leadership through those like Sheriffdikis.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Please listen to the past episodes of this.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Program and you will be absolutely blown away by the progress,
the innovation and just the teamwork that it takes to lead, protect,
elevate this region. It's very exciting. Please talk about the
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mental health crisis. Right, you can't watch the news without
seeing the result of somebody experiencing a mental health crisis
and having it negatively impact their neighbors or innocent bystanders.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
So if it unfortunately, we've had some major challenges in
this county. Really a person being in crisis then ultimately
and ends up in some type of use of force
with law enforcement, never ever anything pretty, but sometimes very necessary. However,
if we get to those people before the crisis occurs,
that's where the business we want to be in. And
this is something that I've tried to champion, probably more
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so than just about any other thing. And it's kind
of weird, why would a cop champion those things. I
have a HOPE team. You and I've talked about that.
It's the Homeless Proactive Homeless Outreach and Proactive Enforcement team.
Their goal is to try to get people housed, but
we also contact the same people over and over again,
and we find out that many of them have comorbidity
with substance abuse and mental health. So I've championed Proposition
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thirty six, Senate Bill forty three a number of these
mental health tools given to law enforcement, Laura's Law, where
we can take those folks and it's not grabbing them
and putting them in jail. You know you're here, Oh,
cops want job security. That's not even close to the case.
Want is them to be helped. So a lot of
these tools get them before the court and the court
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can then send them to different areas where they're not
in jail, they're not decompensating, but they're actually getting the
treatment and the help they need, or even going as
far as some level of conservatorship. So in our county,
we're doing that. We actually meet with the Department Behavioral Health,
the cases law Enforcement introduces, we're now having these meetings.
If they aren't being transferred through, we're asking the why now,
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and we're keeping those statistics so that we can hold
each other accountable to making sure we get these people help.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
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be with us here, Sheriffdikish.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
My pleasure of it as always wonderful.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
So prior to the break, we were talking about the
mental health crisis and how basically law enforcement is the
first line of addressing and responding to these events. And
you also alluded to when you mentioned some public policy
initiatives that you are pushing forward. Please talk a little
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bit about what those are and what we need to
know to ensure that we are creating a safer community for.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Regions.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Sure, well, obviously it's a complicated issue in terms of
mental health. Both were not just law enforcement, but families
trying to introduce maybe their family members that are having
some sort of crisis or some sort of issue. But
what I call law enforcement and the reason we're so
involved in wind in this process, as I call it
street view. We meet these crisises in the street when
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people are in crisis and needing help. A lot of
times the families call us first, and you've seen that
spell out very positively and also very negatively. And maybe
the person was in crisis and had a weapon, and
then you see a use of force. So what our
philosophy is how do you get in front of that
And a lot of our legislators have given us Senate
Bill forty three where we're taking those instances and actually
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getting those people now instead of taking them just well
you've heard the term fifty one fifty to a hospital
that actually requires not just a short evaluation and then
turning the person out to the street. But what is
the through put to the courts to get these people
the help that they need. And that's something that's already passed.
We don't need to vote on it. It was one
of our legislators that actually put that through, giving law
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enforcement that tool. Here, the County Board of Supervisors partnered
with me Laura's law, the ability for law enforcement to
do these mental health type cases the evidence before the
court so that the Department of Behavioral Health can come
alongside and take those people and try to get them
into some of these different medical situations for help rather
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than the person going to jail because there was an
associated minor crime or something with it. You've heard of
Proposition one, which the governor supported in terms of getting
a lot of the funding out. You've seen our local
Board of Supervisors that invest that in a lot of
mental health and homeless programs. I'm even working on using
jail property. A lot of times when you try to
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build these places in communities, you get, you know, not
in my backyard. So it's using jail property to be
able to build some of these things because some of
these folks are coming and going from those areas. But
more of a treatment type facility, not the traditional jail environment.
And used to be when somebody came in with mental health,
we didn't have medical records or anything from the outside
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ind so we would ask them what prescription they were taking,
and our doctors would try to figure out what their
mental illness was as a result of the medications they
were taking. And I'm happy to say now there's information
sharing going on with the doctors in the jail. So
heaven forbid if I were to come in with a
mental health problem into the jail. Now the doctors know
what my history is and how to properly treat me
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and try to stand people up. You're seeing innovations long
term injectables that last for thirty days, so people that
are not taking their medication now they can stay out
in the community longer before there's a crisis. I mean,
there's so many good things going on in this area,
but the base argument is capacity. We need more and
more capacity so the court can sentence these people to
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treatment rather than sentence into jail.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And that's exactly what it's about.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
As you mentioned, when it comes to mental health and
behavioral health infrastructure, it's building out that infrastructure and allowing
people to have those services to let them reintegrate safely
in the community versus you know, having them be in
a jail.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Right, shareff, share what the.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Dynamic is of your current incarsories when it comes to
being medicated and how it is that the Semino County
Sheriff's Department manages that in a setting of being incarcerated.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
So event actually, the question you asked is a big
one for all of us, and it's a difficult management problem.
But approximately two thirds of the inmates that we do
incarcerate have some type of mental health issue along with
whatever they're actually doing time for. So if you want
to take two thirds, our average daily population runs on
average somewhere between fifty two hundred and fifty eight hundred
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inmates in our jail system. So I remember, two thirds
of those folks are being treated, and we couldn't do
it without great partners like Liberty Healthcare that is our
mental health service provider in there. They do a phenomenal
job both in group treatment settings individual settings. And this
all occurs in the jail. And a lot of people
tend to think people don't get good medical care in there,
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but they get great medical care and really a full
evaluation from the time of being booked in the jail,
both on the mental health side and the physical side
of whatever health problems they may not have been taking
care of themselves for years until they actually come into
our jail system.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
And I'm aware of your goal to reduce recidivism, right,
and that can only be done when these behavioral and
mental health resources and investments and infrastructure is implemented to
prevent the case of having committed a crime that lands
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you incarcerated. In addition to using existing infrastructure, be it
facilities or land that is owned by the San Berdandino
County Sheriff's Department, speak to the various partners or conversations
that you're having to truly address.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
This sure So the Board of Supervisors are partnered with
me in this. They all have different assignments as well
as we all do. Some of them are on the
Interagency Homelessness Council Supervisor baka Supervisor Hagman. They're dealing directly
with homelessness. I think they just just finished an adjunct
group that they had. One of my best partners is
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the County Hospital Believing or Not, the CEO, Andrew Goldfrak.
We talk regularly because he's impacted by the capacity of
police bringing people with these illness mental illness issues and
taking up emergency room beds. So as we build this
capacity and we talk how do we get the throughput?
And it's a lot more complicated when you go from
the street view that I said we had all the
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way through the doctors and then into the courts and
then ultimately where the capacity exists. So we're all working together,
and I'm proud of this county for being able to
do that. But it probably is one of the biggest
social problems that's affecting really everybody in the United States,
across the United States, but certainly in the state as
it relates to try and help people out that have
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and are suffering from mental illness.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Right, which leads us to the next talking point.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Which are random acts of violence that seem to be
on the rise.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
In addition to.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Supporting these mental and behavioral health objectives, what else is
the sembody Dane County Sheriff's Department doing to proactively protect
our communities.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
So one of the biggest things you vet, and this
is something that we try to advertise regularly when you're
talking about these random acts of violence, is getting out
to every community member because you never know if you
might have that piece of information to actually solve a
problem before it happens. But see something, say something campaigns.
We have an intelligence division here at the Sheriff's Department.
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We are linked in with our federal partners, our state partners,
and all the rest of our local partners. We work
together on these things. And the term I like to
use is the answer is yes before the phone rings.
Because we all know each other. We don't worry about
trying to introduce each other to the street. When the
crisis has occurred, we know and we know we're coming
to each other's aid. And it's really partnering with the
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community to try to get out in front of those
things and also monitoring this human intelligence side and trying
to get in same thing with social media, to see
if we can actually identify any potential actors out there
and get in front of this. And unfortunately, we see
it play out with our school kids, you know, a
threat or bringing a gun on campus and those types
of things. We work with our school resource officers and
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our school police departments to try to be able to
prevent these things. And if they hear it, then we
immediately start to partner with them and investigate it. And
it's a big moving target. And with social media it's
you know, it's really hard the way people communicate, it's fast,
and it's vast, So staying with that, it is certainly
a challenge that law enforcement's trying to keep up with.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So in your campaign, see something, say something? Is there
a hotline besides the traditional nine to one one where
callers can call in and potentially and hopefully in cases
where they don't want to be retaliated against, anonymously provide
this information to the Semdino County Sheriff's Department.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So I would say we all have to weigh things
as to what the emergency is. Obviously, if you saw
somebody and plane clothes, it's an obvious not a law
enforcement officer, and you see some type of firearm moving
into like a business or something like that, that would
be appropriate to do a nine to one one call.
If it's something where they're seeing suspicious activity. It may
be the same car as passing a school or a
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power plant or things that just don't seem right. Then
any one of the business lines for any police department
or any sheriff's department, they can call and report that
and they will be transferred to folks like our intelligence division,
or simply that may get sent to dispatch in a
non emergency or priority call. So we can still go
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canvass that area and see if we can identify what
it is and find out, Hey, is this something very
simple and antiseptic and not suspicious, or it may be
solving a true problem before a piece of our infrastructures attacked.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right, And where can members of the community find those
business line phone numbers to reach out and share some
of that information.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
You know, we'vet the easiest ways. We all have cell
phones by all means. Just go to that search engine
type in whatever jurisdiction you're in. It'll pop up, immediately,
press that call button and it'll go through and that
probably makes it the simplest. And then, of course all
of our agencies have online websites, and there are also
things we tip. If you want to be completely anonymous,
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you can call one eight hundred we tip and leave
that message that goes directly and they route it to
the jurisdiction or the law enforcement agency where the complaint
resides at. So there are a number of things that
people can do to stay on top of protecting the community,
just with their own eyes and ears.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
That is absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
And you know, as I mentioned before, I am just
incredibly proud of your work, your deputy's work, your staff work,
the entire team that it takes to keep our community safe.
And I've heard that several of your department members are
receiving Metal of Valor awards from the California State Sheriff's Association.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Please tell us more about that.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Well, I'm pretty excited to do that because I'm actually
hosting the event here in our county as well, so
all fifty eight sheriffs. This is a special ceremony because
it's actually the sheriffs that vote on these different events
that have occurred across our state. And one of the
incidences that happened in San Berndanino County was a murder
suspect that was leaving Arizona and traveling through our county
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and the Needle Station deputies were in pursuit of this subject,
and between our Aviation division and them, they were able
to get this person stopped and safely bring them into custody.
And the valiant effort when you hear about and act
this guy was firing at the and doing a lot
of things during the pursuit. The value and effort of
all those folks involved and to bring it to still
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a peaceful conclusion is nothing short of an extraordinary which
I got to brag here for a moment. That's all
my people of it. They are really they are extraordinary
and I couldn't be more proud of them.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Well, as always, my hat's off to you and to
your entire team of over four hundred and five and
fifty two members that make.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
This county safe. It's just very exciting.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
So Sheriff, tell us about programs, if any that your
department offers that community members may not know about.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Sure, well, one of the greatest ways to get involved
with us in your own community is our Citizen how
Patrol program. We actually send you to a short academy.
You get a uniform and you go out there and
you actually help the deputies. And they also provide a
service like vacation checks. While you're gone. They move things.
Our county is so big, so you can imagine documents
and things that have to go between stations or at
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the headquarters where I'm at. The citizen volunteers are always
moving these things around. Their extra eyes and ears for us.
If we have a traffic issue, they may help direct traffic,
but they get to be intimately involved with their deputies
and with their station and know what's going on in
their community. It makes everybody feel better that they're a
part of making their communities better and safer.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Oh I love that. So, who's the perfect candidate for
this program?
Speaker 4 (41:23):
You know what? It spans the entire spectrum. If you're
a very young person and maybe an explorer, which is
very similar to that where you're riding along with the
deputies and looking at a career in law enforcement. But
if you go beyond that age and you're somewhere around
the age of twenty one and you still want to
be involved, maybe you have a job elsewhere, but you're
still interested in taking care of your community all the
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way up through. We've got folks in their eighties that
are out there doing work and you see them every day,
and just an amazing set of volunteers that.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Is so exciting, and I love that we still have
a community that is dedicated and wants to invest through
volunteers to help support your efforts and the broader efforts
of the Semandino County Sheriff's Department. So with that said, Sheriff,
is there anything else you would like to place on
our radar and share with us today?
Speaker 4 (42:13):
You know, the biggest thing is just if it supporting
law enforcement right now, and again, we live in Sabardino County.
We are very well supported. But a lot of things
you hear in the media, find out for yourself, really
do the research. Don't take anything for granted based on
what you hear, because I just see so many things
in the media that get skewed one way or another. Unfortunately,
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a lot of politics are what's really kind of taking
the tone of the day. And I really believe that
in law enforcement, we're trying to protect everything that's in
the middle of the fringes and make sure that people
again that county vision a safe place to live, work
and play and everybody that's just trying to raise their
family go to work. We want to make sure that
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this is the community to do that in. We're still
one of the most affordable communities to be able to
purchase a home. I want people to want to come
here for all the opportunity that is sam Rendino.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
County, right, And as you mentioned, it's the ideal place
to work, live and play. I've raised three wonderful children.
Of course I'm going to say that because they're mine,
but I have been able to enjoy that work life balance.
And as you mentioned, an hour from anything you may
want to visit, an hour from the desert, an hour
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from the beach, an hour from the mountains, whether you
want to go skiing or go on a lake at
Lake Arrowhead, right. I mean, there's everything that you can
think of here locally, including a wonderful international airport that
is so easy to navigate Ontario, giving you guys a
shout out as well as Samnydino International Airport which has
direct flights as well. But share what some of your
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key priorities are going to be for the next six months.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Well, we talked in depth about one of them, and
it's certainly staying in the cutting edge of technology, looking
at as a force multiplier, making sure people's privacy concerns
are taking care of having the technical platforms to ride
the new technology on so we can stay in front
of it and we can be early adopters. Also, we've
done a lot of things to really, i'll call it,
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for the first time, see a level playing field in
the San Bardino County Sheriff's Department. Fortunately, coming out of
the pandemic, we all did financially much better in terms
of local government. So the deputies have some of the
best equipment that we can provide to them, So it
makes it easier for them to take care of some
of the complicated things that they're dealing with today. We
protect them better, more modern uniforms. I mean, we're moving
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all of that forward. So what I want to do
is keep that momentum, if you will, going, and then
also posture ourselves for the things that we may need
to do in the future. And customer service. It's a
big deal to me. When people have a burglary, it's
their worst day. I want to make that worse day
a little bit easier, and we have things where we're
using technology zoom like you and I are on right
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now to reach out to those victims, start the report early,
and take care of them.
Speaker 3 (45:02):
That's phenomenal, Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
So let's close out the program with the final call
to action to anybody that is listening, that is exploring
or contemplating a career in law enforcement, particularly at the
Sanbrandino County Sheriff's Department Number one.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
If you want to live your dreams, come here. Whatever
you imagine we can help make possible if you're part
of our team. And frankly ivette I need them worse
than they need me. And for any person that may
be a little bit confused in their life or trying
to figure out what's going to give them purpose, come
check us out. We'd like to be part of that purpose.
Speaker 3 (45:40):
That is absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
Sheriff, thank you so much for your time, for your dedication,
and especially for your leadership to ensure that we are
supported by an amazing law enforcement effort the Sambordino County
Sheriff's Department, and as you know, the residents are on
your side. We value you, we thank you, and as always,
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hats off to you.
Speaker 3 (46:03):
Sheriff. I guess yep.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
We love our community event and we'll fight for him.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
So for everybody listening today, don't forget to find us
on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Check us out on
SCBR talk dot com. Don't miss my conversation with Sheriff
Chad Bianco, born in nineteen sixty seven at Utah's Hill
Air Force Base, carried the grit of a mining town
childhood into a storied law enforcement career. With thirty one
(46:32):
years devoted to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, Bianco stabilized budgets,
rebuilt trust, and champion reform, all guided by faith, family,
and a steadfast sense of duty. Next week, we will
have Jennifer McLain Hiramoto, Executive Director of Economic Development for
the City of Ontario, who champions growth locally and statewide.
(46:54):
As Chair of cal ED. With nearly fifteen years in
public service, she leads on Ontario's dynamic real estate and
business strategy, shaping California's future through visionary leadership and dedication
to community progress. You do not want to miss it.
We will see you all next week.
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