By Jim Cornelius Sisters police officers are trading their blue uniforms for the brown and khaki of the Deschutes County Sheriff's Department. Failed to execute CGI : Win32 Error Code = 3 Police chief Rich Shawver and his three officers were to be sworn in as deputies in a ceremony on Wednesday, December 17, at a meeting of the county commissioners. Shawver will serve as patrol sergeant, supervising a total of six deputies in the area bounded by the Sisters School District (excluding Black Butte Ranch, which has its own police). Sisters will pay $206,200 to fund three officers in the first year of the contract. The fourth Sisters officer is filling an existing sheriff's department vacancy. Sisters currently pays $240,000 to put four officers on the streets. The contract guarantees that deputies will continue to provide services established by the Sisters Police Department, including speed enforcement in school zones, night-time business security checks and support for the community's man special events. Failed to execute CGI : Win32 Error Code = 3 Tom Katzke, who acknowledged that he did not participate in the series of three public hearings held on the merger, asked what the city would do if the sheriff's department failed to pass a tax levy and had to make cutbacks. Sheriff Greg Brown responded that the city is funding three positions and the department is obligated by the contract to provide the services as stated, including 120 hours of patrol time per week and guaranteed 24-hour coverage in the area. Brown pledged his support of continuing and expanding the local Juvenile Empowerment Team diversion program. Brown said he has a meeting in January with the county Juvenile Department and the Commission on Children and Families (which funds the JET program). He said the sheriff's department's "number one request" is to make the JET program a full-time operation. Failed to execute CGI : Win32 Error Code = 3 |
