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I wanted to ask you sheriff’s honor is Anthony Ritzy still your captain? Yes, yes, yes. Anthony does a great job. He says when he’s working for you he’s in the lion’s den. You guys keep a lot of heat from the locals I mean to me it sounds like a friendly group you guys are about what age 60 on the average? Well I’m on my 50 going on my 58 years in law enforcement and my age is 79 I’ll be 80 in June and I got two more years on my third term here to finish before every term.
Then I want to get really involved in the Constitutional Sheriff’s and Peace they’re just good people and it’s a good example he’s one of my captains we have a captain we have a major now that’s over the entire posse four of us and he works reports to the sheriff and under sheriff’s so forth but we have each division has a captain lieutenant and two sergeants we have five divisions three in the central part of the county one on the west end of the county and white salmon area and one on the east end of the county out in and just to be very clear sheriff song or when you say the divisions what you really mean is they have their areas of service exactly okay yeah sorry about it yeah they do and one thing about it like to say we’re up to about 170 475 members right now now you’re like any military organization you’re gonna get some of them are very dedicated and working all the time and then you get something that’ll put a few hours in but the bottom line is when you need their help they’re there to help and that’s what’s important do you have a couple counties nearby then like Benton and Franklin that both have large policies is that something that you helped organize well I I believe and I sent the policy and procedures to Benton County and leave and I know at one point they had a Ben County and Franklin and believe had a joint posse between the two and either way we have we have five members I think it’s five members on our posse from Benton County and somebody said well what how does that happen sheriff I mean they live outside your jurisdiction I said look if I have somebody wants to travel from let’s see Mississippi up here volunteer their time they’re a posse member they may not be able to be active as they’d like but they put time in in our county follow our policy and procedures they’re a posse member when you think of think about that ability to tap knowledge so just take election fraud for instance if there needed to be an investigation you could get intelligent IT people that are not in the county but yet jurisdictionally can support the county and so now you’re getting vertical market experts in fields now you’re able to draw on this top tier talent like nobody’s business and sheriff that’s really something important that people don’t realize as well that was just one example yeah no it’s a good example but no the posse has been great I started in 2015 when I first took office and as I indicated all my guys ACLU and a bunch of these people their hair was on fire and they’re running around making all kinds of false accusations in fact as we speak today Sam public records requests are coming in any contact I’ve had with COP with the Constitutional Service Peace Office Association they want to know any contact at all they want to know about the Las Vegas thing and all this tell them what they do is called Sam Bushman I’ll give them they can watch the conferences and they can talk to us and they can come on the radio with us and we can just have them embedded and everything we do how’s that well that’s it see that’s a proper attitude but unfortunately with keyboard workers they don’t want to face you they just want to sit back and take pop shots I understand but that’s why I see I take them on and invite them in and and there was a refuse that’s kind of up to them so you know we’re working on a lot of this stuff folks but really the posses have an incredible role to play and that’s why we have the CSPOA posse because it’s kind of an overlay where again you know what Bob Sanger from his county or anybody in his county can reach out to the CSPOA posse and say hey we’ve got a need for this how do we go about this or we it’s really an incredible think tank and an experience group that can provide guidance and directs how do we handle this well I’ll give you the great example Bob Sanger for his county wrote up a how-to manual it’s a policies and procedures manual about a creative posse how do you vet people what happens if they get caught doing something wrong themselves how do you make sure they don’t get too much power do you want to speak to that Sheriff Sanger because that’s really I think where their fears are stoked but if you really understand there’s no fear yeah exactly well this this is a policy and procedures that we’ve got and we update it periodically but December 1st to 2024 has been revitalizing updated but it covers all kinds of areas the training that goes into these posse members there’s it yeah right there but it’s very important if you’re going to create a posse to make sure you have good guidelines what the posse is expected to do and and communicate with the posse and have training we have training every month back tomorrow night we have a posse meeting central posse meeting here in golden dale area look at that County but we go over policies and procedures now we have a captain Pete Leon and Shane giggle lieutenant they run our training force and they go through the policy and procedures and the Constitution US Constitution and Washington State Constitution is part of that training process but no if anybody’s interested be happy to send them a copy of the policies and procedures now some counties might want to if they’re going to adopt a posse or a creative process they might want to make modifications and that whatever fits that sheriff’s news in that particular time so use this as a boilerplate a starting point if your sheriff wants to adopt it as is all you got to do is update the county information in the document if you want to slightly modify it get with your DA get with whoever you need to do it you know your county commission or the equivalent county supervisors or whatever and kind of go through it you can take citizen input and you can do that like I say every posse is not identical now they’re very similar because there’s principles that work you know when you take the community policing principle there’s a lot to that it has to do with get to know your people you know what does your sheriff know the people in his community do the people in the community know the sheriff or the deputies or the people they work with and you know can I walk into a county fair or a rodeo or you know some event and see two or three or four people that I know that are in the posse and say hey guys what’s happening that’s the kind of interactions that we want because that’s the eyes and ears like nobody’s business point that you can get that’s the neighborhood watch on steroids because even if I’m not a member of the posse if I know five people that are on the posse and I’ve seen anything weird or whatever I got a friend in the posse business instantly I can go to them and say hey this is just weird
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