As your Sheriff, I will get the budget under control, reduce crime without manipulating statistics and introduce new ideas to better train and maintain a higher quality workforce.

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High employee turnover costs millions of dollars a year in training and retraining personnel.  When experienced deputies leave the agency, inexperienced deputies are sometimes put in supervisory positions.  This creates an abundance of problems from poor community interaction to improper arrests and lawsuits against the agency.  We need to bring this agency back to where the citizens do not fear law enforcement officers, but respect them.

As your Sheriff, I will restructure the agency so that it is not a top-heavy organization and improve morale so that the veteran deputy will not want to leave. This will result in a more experienced supervisory staff with better attitudes and create a better community-policing environment, while saving tax dollars. 

As immigration issues are of great concern to the citizens within our county, I am in favor of assisting Immigration deporting alien criminals, illegal aliens who commit crimes in Collier County.  It is the responsibility of the Federal Government to control our borders and as Sheriff I welcome the opportunity to work with them protecting Collier County.  

I feel that the role of Sheriff is to protect and serve all the citizens within this county. 

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