WASHOE COUNTY HONORARY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTIONS - FULL LIST

Pat Dolan
(775) 328-3323

The WCHDSA supplements various Sheriff’s Office activities and efforts, thereby enabling the Sheriff’s Office to provide superior, professional service to the citizens of Washoe County. The nature and extent of the participation of the WCHSDA in advancing and expanding the capabilities of the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office are as broad and deep as the nature and extent of the services provided by the agency.

Sample contributions over the past few years include:

• $58,000.00 to support the "RAVEN" [Regional Aviation Enforcement] Program providing fixed-wing and helicopter search and rescue services as well as fire surveillance and suppression support services.
• $20,000.00 yearly to support the Shop With The Sheriff Christmas outing for the area’s disadvantaged children.
• $4,364.60 for specialized training for 14 Detention Response Team members in the course “Bulletproof Mind - Mental Preparation for Combat Training”.
• $14,800.00 for Sorenson Flight School Tuition and Cost for Upgrading our Helicopter and Fixed Wing Flight Staff and Capabilities.
• $8,068.95 for the purchase of 20 M-26 Tasers.
• $3,770.84 for the purchase of 20 Laptop Computer and operating software for Detectives.
• $1,075.00 for Advanced Training of Detectives re operation of Analyst Notebook Laptop Computers.
• Approximately $10,000.00 per year for the on-going distribution of DNA Kits through the birthing centers at Renown Medical Center and Saint Mary’s Hospital for parents of newborns.
• $8,500.00 for the purchase of a Barrett .50 Caliber Rifle with Leopold Scope.
• $4,000.00 for the purchase of 400 Haz-Mat Storage Bags for all Patrol Division personnel.
• $2,500.00 for purchase of replacement wet suits for the Search and Rescue Unit for use in white water rescue and recovery efforts.
• Approximately $30,000.00 for periodic training of executive staff personnel at the Harvard and Boston Universities’ Senior Management Institute Program for instruction in the latest budgetary and management theory and practice to deliver comprehensive law enforcement services in the most efficient and economic manner.
• $20.000.00 for the purchase of 20 H&K Machine Pistols.
• $8,000.00 for the purchase of personal body armor for Hostage Team members.
• $2,079.75 for staff training in negotiating and tactical techniques for Hostage Team members.
• $7,500.00 in tuition and costs for 4 staff members to attend intensive language instruction in Monterey, California in order to cope with the increasing percentage of our local and national population that speaks English as a second language.
• $1,200.00 for purchase of an age and sex voice synthesizer for use in the Internet Crimes Against Children to simulate to sexual predators the approximate age and gender of the child attempting to be lured by such criminals.
• $5,500.00 of triple-matched third-party funding to secure a side-scanning sonar unit for water search, rescue and recovery operations mounted by the WCSO Search and Rescue and HASTY Teams.
• $10,000.00 to purchase 450 trauma and HazMat safety kits for distribution to all patrol and search and rescue units.
• $8,413.00 for purchase of the flagpole and renovation of the flagpole plaza at the Regional Public Safety and Training Center .
• $13,000.00 to purchase and install a VBrick System to facilitate in-house production and screening of streaming video training programs that can be taken by commissioned and civilian personnel at their regular work station computers at a substantial savings for duplication of instructor services and staff time away from regular duties and responsibilities.
• Nearly $16,000.00 to replace the Incline Village Lake Tahoe Substation patrol and rescue water jet skis with more environmentally compatible water craft.
• $2,500.00 to the family of Deputy Wiberg and $2,750.00 to the Washoe County Honor Guard in connection with getting the Wiberg family and the Honor Guard back to Washington , D.C. for his enshrinement ceremonies.
• In excess of $25,000.00 in support of the Shop With The Sheriff, Fourth Street Corridor and Esther Bennett Elementary School community outreach funding clothing, hygiene and school supply needs of our area’s low-income children.
• $1,000.00 to partially defray the cost of Deputies Bello and Soferino participating in the East Coast bicycle trip being held as part of the ceremonies honoring Deputy Wiberg’s sacrifice.
• $3,000.00 was expended to send 10 command staff members to advanced labor and employment law training in an effort to anticipate and handle the increasing requirement of personnel law, including ADA , FMLA and similar legislative requirements.
• $970.00 to purchase a multi-language translator for use in booking and in the field.
• $860.00 as partial tuition for sending a Deputy to tactical training in forced entries so that that individual can return to the Regional Public Safety Training center and impart that training to our staff at a greatly reduced cost. In this regard, over the past few years we have increasingly contacted national and regional training programs and – instead of send one or just a few deputies to these national or regional conferences – negotiated a program whereby the courses are offered here at the Regional Training Center at a cost that allows us to train many deputies at the same cost that it would require to send one deputy to such far away site and allows the funds expended by the trainers and the attending participates from throughout the country to enrich the local economy.