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Ms.
Hendrix has been the Sheriff’s Administrative Manager
since 2004. Prior to that time, Ms. Hendrix was an
Administrator with the Department of Community
Corrections for seven years. The Sheriff’s
Administrative Manger reports directly to the Sheriff
and Undersheriff, and is responsible for a variety of
functions including the day to day administrative
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The Wyandotte County
Sheriff’s Office Training Division conducts
Basic Detention Officer training, civilian staff
training, and LEO in-service training.
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Charles
Patrick became a Deputy in January of 1990. As a Deputy
working in the Detention Facility, his assignments have
included Housing Unit (Pod) / Tower Officer, Rover
Officer, Property Officer, Intake Officer, and Central
Control Officer. He was promoted to Sergeant in March
1996 and supervised Detention Facility shift(s). He was
an Inmate Disciplinary Hearing Officer and the Records
Division Supervisor. He was promoted to Lieutenant
December 27, 1999 and assigned as the Sheriff’s Office
Training Coordinator, Field Service Supervisor, and
Personnel Liaison Officer. |
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Lt.
Patrick is also the Color / Honor Guard commander, The
Reserve Division commander, and assists the Sheriff’s
Office Administration with other projects.
As the Training Coordinator he works closely with other
agencies and facilities. He is certified as an
instructor in Inter-Personal Communications, OC Spray,
Control Defensive Tactics, Basic Firearms, and teaches
many other topics. He provides / schedules training for
all of the Detention Facility Deputies, civilian staff,
volunteers, and conducts Law Enforcement In-Service
training for the Law Enforcement certified officers.
Lt. Patrick
is married and currently has two children. He enjoys
spending time at home with his family. He and his wife
are home-schooling their children. |
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Listed are the variety
of topics are taught, some of those topics are: |
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First Aid / CPR |
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Basic Firearms |
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Ethics |
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Developing a 40 hour annual In-Service which
maintains the certification of each officer as
specified and/or required by the Department
and/or the State of Kansas. |
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Scheduling various Specialized Schools for staff
members. |
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Ordering, maintaining, and issuing police
equipment for recruit officers. |
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Insuring state standards and qualifications are
met for each officer. |
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Ensures each officer knows how to handle and
qualifies with their assigned weapon(s) |
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To
train the officers to serve the public in a
consistent, efficient, and professional manner.
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Other staff members of the Sheriff’s Office as
well as outside instructors assist the Training
Division staff by providing instruction to
students / staff. |
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With
inter-agency cooperation, classes are often
conducted off site allowing for a large diverse
availability of topics. |
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The Sheriff’s Office Reserve
Division consists of volunteers from the community that
represent the Sheriff’s Office in a community service
manner. By working with inmates, the courts, side by
side with full time Deputies, and with the public. The
Reserve Deputy Supervisors coordinate the coverage of
special events. Working special events such as parades,
church / community events, school events, and many
others. Working with and around children using the
McGruff program to help parents to make their children
aware of safety. Assisting with the awareness of the
dangers of drinking and driving, the dangers of legal
and illegal drugs, and other anti-crime / anti-drug
issues. The Reserve Division Officers average about
3,500 hours of (volunteer) service per year. Reserve
deputies assume their own expenses. The monetary savings
of this activity to the county amounts to more than an
estimated $1,000,000.00 worth of salaries, benefits,
uniforms & equipment for approximately 30 officers for
one year. The Reserve Officer program is an effective
way to increase available personnel without capital
expenditures.
Sheriff’s
Reserve Officers assist the Sheriff in meeting community
emergency response needs. Each reserve deputy shares a
common dedication to law enforcement and the community.
They also share the belief that through their efforts
they can make Wyandotte County a better place to live.
Reserve deputies include mechanics, clerks, secretaries,
and self-employed business people. Many reserve deputy
families have long traditions of law enforcement. Some
reservists previously worked as regular law officers and
many regular deputies began their career as a reserve
deputy. |
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Reserve Officer
obligation of service consists of: |
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16 hours a month in the
individuals assigned Division. |
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24 hours a year in
community service events (such as parades). |
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20 hours a year training
time. |
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Annual firearms training
and qualification. |
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Others requirements as
specified by the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office
and/or the State of Kansas. |
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The Field
Services Division serves the citizens of Wyandotte
County by providing law enforcement, civil process, and
inmate transport services. |
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Lieutenant
Paul Arnold began his law enforcement career in 1974 and
since that time has worked for two Kansas City area
Police Departments prior to coming to the Wyandotte
County Sheriff’s Office. He is a graduate of the Kansas
Law Enforcement Academy in Hutchinson, Kansas and has
extensive road patrol experience. During a sojourn in to
the private sector he worked in management for both
business and hospital security. However, after a period
of time, the lure of law enforcement and its virtuous
goal of “Making the World Safe for Widows and Orphans”
became too strong and he joined the Wyandotte County
Sheriff’s Office in 1998. Since that time he has worked
as a Detention Center Deputy and a Records Sergeant. In
2005 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and
supervises the Field Services Department. Lieutenant
Arnold’s present position affords him the opportunity to
put his cumulative work experiences to use in helping
Sheriff Green further his goal of providing exceptional
service to the community. |
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The division
is composed of the following units: |
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Civil Process Unit:
This unit enforces orders issued by the various
courts by serving process, executing judgments,
and making returns on the orders. |
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Court Transport-Adult: This
unit transports inmates to and from court
hearings, maintains courtroom security and
accepts custody of individuals on order of the
court. |
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Facility Transport-Adult: This
unit transports inmates from local and state
facilities to Wyandotte County, and transports
sentenced inmates from Wyandotte County to state
correctional facilities. |
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Criminal Warrants Unit:
This
unit locates and arrests individuals on criminal
and civil warrants and transports them to the
detention facility for processing. |
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Delinquent Taxes:
This
unit collects taxes due by contacting the
defendants, serving orders of the court and
collecting the monies owed and delivering it to
the county treasurer. |
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Evictions:
This unit restores real property to the
possession of the owner by service of, and
enforcement of orders issued by the courts. |
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Probate Services: This
unit serves the Probate Court by transporting
individuals whom the court has reason to believe
are at risk to themselves and/or others. The
patients are located and transported to medical
facilities throughout the state and brought to
the court on order of the court. |
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Enforcement:
This
unit enforces the regulations governing vehicle
registration by answering citizen complaints,
making random road checks, and scheduled tag
enforcement checkpoints for proper licensing,
registration, and financial security
requirements. The enforcement of these laws
helps to ensure payment of personal property
tax. |
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Court & Facility Transport-Juvenile:
This
unit transports juvenile offenders to and from
court hearings, maintains courtroom security,
accepts custody of juveniles and transports them
to youth centers throughout the state. |
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One of
the primary duties of the Sheriff’s Department is to
manage the incarceration of adult and juvenile offenders
in the local county detention centers and provide for
their safety therein. Therefore, in the event of
offender unrest/criminal activity occurring within the
detention facilities, the Sheriff’s department has
historically maintained a specialized unit of officers
trained to provide strategic intervention. This
specialized unit of officers is in the process of
evolving into the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team.
The planning and development phase of the S.E.R.T. began
in April of 2003. All eleven member of the S.E.R.T. are
or will be certified law enforcement officers with
specialized training in tactical operations when fully
operational. The S.E.R.T. anticipates being fully
operational by January of 2005.
Specifically, the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team (S.E.R.T.)
is designed to provide specialized public safety
services to local courts, corrections and law
enforcement agencies, as well as to the community at
large. The S.E.R.T. has five primary objectives:
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It is, unfortunately, a
fact that the most recently recognized and perhaps
greatest threat to our citizens comes from organized
terrorist activities. This most recent threat, along
with the criminal activities that continue to be
associated with the drug trade, require us to be
vigilant in our pursuit of those who would do our
citizens most harm and maintain a level of preparedness
adequate to intervene as required. The S.E.R.T. team
will provide the kind of highly trained, specialized law
enforcement response necessary to for us to best serve
our community.
In addition, as we have historically maintained a
tactical team in a state of preparedness to primarily
manage unrest within the detention centers, the
development of the S.E.R.T. will allow this specialized
training to be utilized not only within the confines of
the detention centers, but will allow for expansion of
services to the citizens of the county and the law
enforcement community. The investment into the ongoing
specialized training, equipment needs, personnel, etc.
of the S.E.R.T. will now reap a much larger return as
our mission and objectives have expanded in response to
the needs of the community.
Wyandotte County currently has over 870 outstanding
criminal felony warrants. The S.E.R.T. team will have
the training and resources necessary to pursue and
apprehend those felons deemed to be “high risk”
offenders, reducing public safety risk to the
community. In addition, community members may report
suspected criminal activity to the Office of the
Sheriff. The S.E.R.T. may be utilized to investigate
if, in fact, the alleged crimes are being committed and
develop a tactical plan to intervene upon those
activities in a proactive and time sensitive manner.
Currently, two of the three cities located with the
boundaries of the county, Bonner Springs and
Edwardsville, do not have specialized tactical units
available via their respective local police
departments. The S.E.R.T. may be utilized by those
cities to “fill in the gap” of resources available to
those local police departments in the event they have
need of a tactical unit. |
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A lifelong resident of Wyandotte County, Captain Michael
Freeman has served with the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s
Office since 1974. During the course of his career, he
has been assigned to the Detention, Dispatch, Road
Patrol, Investigations, and Administrative Divisions.
In 2003, Sheriff Leroy Green Jr. appointed Captain
Freeman to the post of Chief Deputy, and he currently
represents the Sheriff’s Office as a Homeland Security
advisor.
A recipient of the Award for Valor Gold Award from KMBC-TV
and the Metropolitan Police Chiefs and Sheriff’s
Association, Captain Freeman has also received
certification from the National Institute for Truth
Verification in testing and examination techniques. |
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The Professional Standards Unit conducts
unbiased and objective investigations on
internal and external matters
originating in the Adult and Juvenile
Detention Centers, as well as those
investigations originating from the
Field Services Division. The unit also
performs staff inspections of
departmental functions to assure the
most efficient achievement of
departmental goals. If you would like
to speak to someone in this unit about a
complaint, question or concern contact
the Wyandotte County Sheriffs Office at
913-573-2861. |
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