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Post by lainey on Jun 10, 2014 14:44:30 GMT -4
What dogs? The K9 dogs of course. Queen Annes County no longer has a single k9 dog on its force. The last dog was given away for free. Gary Hofmann got rid of them, citing they were too expensive. I would find this rather amusing, but the joke is on us taxpayers. We paid around 14,000.00 to buy, train and equip Zora. Zora was assigned to Deputy Mike Jordan. When the Sheriff was investigating Deputy Jordan for theft of time and benefits, he had Zora ordered to a kennel where she lived alone for several months. Once the Sheriff fired Deputy Jordan, he was told to take his dog with him. Now Deputy Jordan has had all charges against him "Dismissed with Prejudice" and we have no deputy and no dog. Zora was a brand new K9, only about 2 years old when she was "released for free" How does an asset of the Sheriffs office disappear from duty? Why was she not reassigned to a new human partner. She had already earned her spot in our department....Aug 2013 she was responsible for taking 23,000.00 worth of crack and cocaine off the streets of Crumpton. And that is just one incident she participated in.
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Post by JJ on Jun 10, 2014 14:55:18 GMT -4
Sheriff Hofmann says cost to much money. Lets see, K-9s are not just for Drug Interdiction, however they can be cross trained for patrol and tracking. A fact is that a K-9 Narcotics detection dog pays for itself and then some within the first year. For many years after the first year, the currency and other asset forfeitures that come from a result of the Narcotics K-9 go back to the K-9's department. A K-9 trained or cross trained for tracking is crucial to this county with all of the children and elderly that can go missing in a matter of seconds. With the Eastern Pre Release Division of Corrections facility north of Centreville, Inmates are known to walk off the compound and break into local homes and steal firearms, property and vehicles. A tracking K-9 would critical for a timely track started to prevent the loss of property or life.
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Post by RobMoore on Jun 12, 2014 8:18:55 GMT -4
Not enough room in the budget for a K9 program when they keep buying new vehicles.
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Post by dw on Jun 12, 2014 9:40:31 GMT -4
Maybe the County could install speed cameras, like Centreville did, to generate more money for the sheriff's department.
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Post by oysterabe on Jun 14, 2014 7:14:23 GMT -4
maybe if we downgraded to like a beagle or something it wouldn't cost as much because they are smaller...
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 14, 2014 8:34:11 GMT -4
We should do red light cameras also
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Post by eileen on Jun 14, 2014 9:40:08 GMT -4
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 14, 2014 9:55:49 GMT -4
That's gonna cost the state some cash. May end dogs career as well
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Post by JJ on Jun 14, 2014 10:20:13 GMT -4
It might cost some money to the State of Maryland and will have little to no effect on local county government. Now the law suits that are taking place with Queen Anne's County under Sheriff Hofmann's leadership for a false arrest and sexual harassment and some other issues, that's really going to cost Queen Anne's County Government and county tax payers and have a MAJOR effect on county government!
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 14, 2014 11:46:17 GMT -4
You are assuming they win huh
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Post by JJ on Jun 14, 2014 12:34:40 GMT -4
No doubt Sheriff Hofmann and Queen Anne's County will loose! Stay tuned, there is much more to come!
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 14, 2014 13:14:15 GMT -4
Oh I am
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Post by JJ on Jun 14, 2014 13:29:32 GMT -4
Who are you? Are you Sheriff Hofmann? Obviously there was something for the county to settle $620,000!
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 14, 2014 14:58:39 GMT -4
We can go in circles all day if you want.
You said its gonna cost money. I said you are assuming but to date it hasn't for what you specified
I guess only your opinion matters huh
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Post by JJ on Jun 14, 2014 18:04:56 GMT -4
You said it, not me! You can run around in circles all you want, but again you typed it!
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 14, 2014 19:38:45 GMT -4
Who cares?
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