Welcome aboard one more time for another visit with the employees of the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office. We are mostly well and enduring the heat as best we can which is probably just what you are doing. Of course in just four months we will probably look back on the heat of August with a certain degree of longing as we play in the snow and ice.
Our jail list on Monday the 23rd has a total of 82 inmates listed. I am sure the citizens of Miller County are quite happy today to see this inmate total because it means their jail is making money for them this year. Business is booming and we would like to see a recession in crime. Our calls for service/case number count stands at 7,231 on Monday morning.
Yes, I am writing the column on a Monday morning. I managed to stay busy and slightly lazy over the weekend and the time has arrived to produce the column. In last weeks column I wrote about the troubles of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit of the federal government. I had expected a large uproar over the information that I had placed in that column.
I was wrong. I received exactly two reader comments. One was from a local police chief and one was from one of my brothers-in-law. Not exactly the uproar I had expected on such a major topic in the current political situation. But this has happened before. I write about a topic I expect comments on and nothing happens. I write about a minor item and everybody jumps on that topic. I just never know what to place in this column.
On the grant front we have news today. I will shortly go before the Pulaski County Commissioners to brief them on a small equipment grant we have been awarded by District Nine of MODOT. The grant will be for $2,300 and will furnish another radar unit for the department. My memory tells me that this new unit will equip the last full time road car that currently does not have a radar unit installed. The grant is a 100% pay by MODOT and will not cost Pulaski County any money.
I hope to have more good news soon because it will soon be time for the MODOT headquarters unit to announce their grant awards. I have another application pending with them at this time and hopefully we will receive another award from them. In fact tomorrow morning I must travel to Springfield, Missouri, to attend a grant meeting that I hope will announce the second award.
I still have not received the final federal grant report on the site visit we had some months ago. We are currently on track with all of our federal grants and are close to the completion mark with two of them in terms of the purchase of the equipment that the grant allowed. If and when the final site visit shows up I will try to pass on the information.
This next weekend our local Kiwanis Club will host a Gun and Knife show here and the Sheriff’s Office will have a small supply of free gun locks at the show if you need one. We will also provide a measure of security for the show and I believe that there will also be a booth where you can donate to the annual Shop with a Cop program if you want.
On the employee front we have good news and bad news. We will soon get back our missing deputy that Uncle Sam kidnapped to send to Haiti for a humanitarian mission for two months. But we have also been told that our long time dispatcher Adam Wolfe will leave us this week in order to attend school out of this area. We wish Adam the best as he moves to another chapter in his life.
And as luck would have it one of our former dispatchers is back in town looking for a job and she will take Adam’s place immediately. This will be good for us because we will not have to retrain her on the major parts of the job. We have added a computer aided dispatch (CAD) module since she left and that is all she will need to be trained up on so the normal amount of overtime needed to get the unit back to par will be cut this time. Welcome back Debra Holmes.
I seem to be at the end of another column so I will close out by saying once again for everyone to please drive with care. We do not need the wrecks. Please keep your actions legal because we surely do not need you in our jail. But the lights are bright.
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Welcome aboard one more time for another visit with the employees of the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office. We are mostly well and enduring the heat as best we can which is probably just what you are doing. Of course in just four months we will probably look back on the heat of August with a certain degree of longing as we play in the snow and ice.
Our jail list on Monday the 23rd has a total of 82 inmates listed. I am sure the citizens of Miller County are quite happy today to see this inmate total because it means their jail is making money for them this year. Business is booming and we would like to see a recession in crime. Our calls for service/case number count stands at 7,231 on Monday morning.
Yes, I am writing the column on a Monday morning. I managed to stay busy and slightly lazy over the weekend and the time has arrived to produce the column. In last weeks column I wrote about the troubles of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit of the federal government. I had expected a large uproar over the information that I had placed in that column.
I was wrong. I received exactly two reader comments. One was from a local police chief and one was from one of my brothers-in-law. Not exactly the uproar I had expected on such a major topic in the current political situation. But this has happened before. I write about a topic I expect comments on and nothing happens. I write about a minor item and everybody jumps on that topic. I just never know what to place in this column.
On the grant front we have news today. I will shortly go before the Pulaski County Commissioners to brief them on a small equipment grant we have been awarded by District Nine of MODOT. The grant will be for $2,300 and will furnish another radar unit for the department. My memory tells me that this new unit will equip the last full time road car that currently does not have a radar unit installed. The grant is a 100% pay by MODOT and will not cost Pulaski County any money.
I hope to have more good news soon because it will soon be time for the MODOT headquarters unit to announce their grant awards. I have another application pending with them at this time and hopefully we will receive another award from them. In fact tomorrow morning I must travel to Springfield, Missouri, to attend a grant meeting that I hope will announce the second award.
I still have not received the final federal grant report on the site visit we had some months ago. We are currently on track with all of our federal grants and are close to the completion mark with two of them in terms of the purchase of the equipment that the grant allowed. If and when the final site visit shows up I will try to pass on the information.
This next weekend our local Kiwanis Club will host a Gun and Knife show here and the Sheriff’s Office will have a small supply of free gun locks at the show if you need one. We will also provide a measure of security for the show and I believe that there will also be a booth where you can donate to the annual Shop with a Cop program if you want.
On the employee front we have good news and bad news. We will soon get back our missing deputy that Uncle Sam kidnapped to send to Haiti for a humanitarian mission for two months. But we have also been told that our long time dispatcher Adam Wolfe will leave us this week in order to attend school out of this area. We wish Adam the best as he moves to another chapter in his life.
And as luck would have it one of our former dispatchers is back in town looking for a job and she will take Adam’s place immediately. This will be good for us because we will not have to retrain her on the major parts of the job. We have added a computer aided dispatch (CAD) module since she left and that is all she will need to be trained up on so the normal amount of overtime needed to get the unit back to par will be cut this time. Welcome back Debra Holmes.
I seem to be at the end of another column so I will close out by saying once again for everyone to please drive with care. We do not need the wrecks. Please keep your actions legal because we surely do not need you in our jail. But the lights are bright.
