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2012 Year in Review: Fire rescue a priority for sheriff in 2013
Strengthening the marriage of the county’s public safety programs — fire rescue and law enforcement — will figure prominently in the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office’s plans for 2013.
Additionally, the sheriff’s office plans to shore up its intelligence-driven policing program and for the second straight year focus on reducing property crimes and drug crimes.
Since the merger of fire rescue and the sheriff’s office in October 2011, Sheriff Jeff Dawsy has often referenced expanding the services offered by fire rescue and expanded training for CCSO personnel.
Dawsy took the lead by enrolling in fire training classes, and in 2012 added fully staffed fire stations in the outlying areas of the county — DeRosa in the north, Sugarmill Woods in the south and Floral City in the east.
Firefighters also were equipped to perform initial life-support medical aid at various scenes.
In 2013, according the officials at the agency, the sheriff’s office will assume responsibility for fleet service and maintenance for all Citrus Sheriff Fire Rescue vehicles.
The agency also outlined the following as its top priorities for 2013:
* Continue to use its intelligence-led policing strategic plan to monitor and take action against local persons of interest and repeat offenders who frequent the agency’s criminal investigations, plus track closely any crime patterns either regionally or in neighboring counties.
* Reinvent wide-reaching, five-year strategic plans driving both fire rescue and law enforcement.
* Set priorities in its crime-reduction plan to include property crimes and drug crimes, the primary focus being on prescription pills and synthetics.
* Enhance its special operations’ HazMat team by having fire rescue’s medical director credential all HazMat paramedics in performing advanced life-support skills.
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How about actually having his
How about actually having his deputies do their jobs and arrest people! Dawsy wants the crime rate to go down so his deputies are not reporting crimes properly and are falsifying police reports by omitting facts, or changing facts in incidents which could lead to arrest. He's too afraid of a lawsuit. His deputies would rather not arrest anyone for fear of reprimand in the off chance they were wrong. People are falsely arrested every day in this country. You don't hear every single one of them filing lawsuits. I'm embarrassed for how blinded his supporters are. He could tell them he will turn the sky purple and turn all their patrol cars into hovercars and they would believe him. I can't wait to move to Polk County and be under Sheriff Judd's watch. Now there's a man who knows what he's doing. In the last election he received 96% of the vote. That's outstanding and a clear sign he does his job right.
Quit talking about it and just do it already
Dawsey Bossy I am no fan of yours but I know I am not the only one. Stop flapping your jaws and do what you say your going to do. I know for you that is easier said than done. Talk is cheep. Stop wasting money and time. We are stuck with you for few too many more years, get your grass in gear.