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Speaker: Welcome another episode of your briefing. I'm Sergeant Shay Haney PIO from the Adams County Sheriff's office. This is a short form podcast where we want to educate the community on various topics and various things going on within your community with the Adams County Sheriff's office and overall in law enforcement.
Speaker: Today we're gonna talk about the difference between deputies, officers, and troopers. And we're also gonna touch on a few things surrounding jurisdictions and things that the the different agencies cover.
Speaker: We learned recently after releasing a Crime Stat post that a lot of our public may not be as informed as they should be as to who responds to what. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. And then we're gonna end with our tip of the week. We're gonna talk about home cameras. We know cameras are a big issue, a big topic that everyone's worried about right now, but we're going to have some conversation around home cameras.
Speaker: All right, so let's get going. So we'll start with, I'm in a guitar podcast and we're the Adams County Sheriff's Office. So let's start with deputies. What do deputies do? So we patrol the unincorporated parts of Adams County. That means if you live within, say Thornton, Brighton, Commerce City, North Glen, within the city, you're probably not going to see the Adams County Sheriff's Office. Areas that we patrol are near 70th and Broadway, 72nd and Pecos, 60th and Federal, if you're familiar with the area. So all of the areas around Adams County, and I think we have 500,000 plus residents overall in the county that are incorporated, that falls on on the sheriff's deputies.
Speaker: So we also have detectives and special units. In our first episode, we kind of talked about the different units that we have within the Sheriff's Office, but specifically with Adams County, we we have the bomb squad that responds to other jurisdictions and incidents and in those. And we have our SWAT team. Those are typically our SWAT teams used for unincorporated Adams County only, but sometimes we'll help the cities out as well.
Speaker: Something unique to deputies, and this is across Colorado and probably across the nation, is we work in the jail. So our deputies are certified officers in our jail, and they're responsible for security within the facility and and handling all of the arrestees and the inmates as they come in and out.
Speaker: The cities will bring their arrestees into us, and we'll take custody of those guys, and you know we're responsible for that. Another thing we handle is the civil processes. What is that?
Speaker: That's evictions and serving protection orders. Now any officer in the state can serve protection orders, it doesn't matter, but the sheriff's office is a primary, response you know, the sheriff's offices are primarily responsible for that. We also work the courthouse. We're we're responsible for security there. And what's different than obviously the sheriff, excuse me, the police departments is we work for the sheriff. The sheriff's an elected official. The police chiefs are not.
Speaker: And, you know, jurisdiction wise, like I said earlier, we talked about patrolling unincorporated Adams County, but we're responsible or we have jurisdiction over the entire county. So that's why sometimes you'll see deputies in Aurora and North Glen and doing these various things. Most of the times those are civil deputies, but we do have jurisdiction across cross Adams County.
Speaker: So let's talk about officers. Police officers, they work for the police department. These guys patrol the they incorporated the portions of the city. So Thornton, North Glen, Brighton, Commerce City, those guys are responsible for those areas. if If something bleeds out into another area or goes into a different jurisdiction, they can handle that, but primarily they're going to be responsible for their own cities. Like the sheriff's office, they have these investigative units, these special units. Sometimes they ask for help from the county, but a lot of these departments have their own.
Speaker: Places like Denver and Broomfield are cities and counties, so they have their own jails in their areas, but there are their their sheriff's offices or their sheriff's deputies usually just run the jail or do the civil processes while their police departments handle the calls for service.
Speaker: And like I said, when we talked about deputies, the PDs will bring us their arrestees. They don't house them. Aurora and Denver, Aurora has a city jail and sometimes they'll bring them over. But most of the time, if somebody is arrested, they'll be booked in by the PD and then brought up to to the county jail, at least in Adams County. Other areas may have a little bit different, but that's how it works for us. And these guys work for the police chief who's usually appointed by a city council or a mayor or something like that. there It's not an elected official.
Speaker: All right, troopers. So they're not AAA with a gun. We respect our troopers. They're great. they do They do good work. But they are responsible for traffic enforcement and accidents throughout um Colorado, but primarily in the unincorporated areas. And so if you get an accident,
Speaker: in an unincorporated area, we may come and help as the Sheriff's Office, but the primary jurisdiction that's responsible for that is gonna be State Patrol. They're gonna come, they're gonna do the accident, and we will help them, but that's where you're gonna that's where the investigation's gonna come in.
Speaker: And so, they're also responsible for protection for the governor, and they also do a lot of the escorts for the football teams and various dignitaries that come in, and they work for the Chief of CSP, which is also called a Colonel.
Speaker: All right. So, um you know, the things we have in common, we're all cops, right? Most of the time, the sheriff's deputies are certified. There are some deputies within different sheriff's offices that are not, that work the jail. But does it doesn't matter. We're all pushing forward the same goal, right?
Speaker: No matter what, um you're going to have an officer come when you call 911, okay? It may be an officer from a certain jurisdiction and have to wait for a different one, but we're all going respond when people call for help.
Speaker: um And then some other areas that we want to touch on just briefly that we haven't talked about yet that the different cities and counties have, animal control. A lot of times these are, the county has their own animal control that's not under the purview of the sheriff's office. Cities have their animal control sometimes tied to their police departments. but these are These are not usually officers, not usually certified officers, but they come out and they enforce the animal laws, okay? Code enforcement's another one.
Speaker: We work at hand in hand with all these departments, but co-enforcement will respond to kind of nuisance properties, abandoned properties, those types of deals. So those are typically not certified officers either.
Speaker: At the county, we have community safety and well-being. They handle some of those types of incidents too. We also have park rangers that handle some of the stuff in the parks. They kind of look like us, kind of like the Colorado State Park Rangers and Department of Wildlife. Some departments have community service officers. I started with Westminster when they had community service officers when I was 19, but Brighton I think has some, and so those are those are people you might see. Traffic investigators, sometimes departments will have civilians doing just traffic enforcement, and then if a state ticket needs to be written, they'll call for an officer. And then co-responders. So co-responders at the Sheriff's Office, they're integrated into the Sheriff's Office,
Speaker: They're part of our program. They ride around with our officers. Obviously, they're not patrol officers. They're not certified deputies, but they are there to help. And they're there. They're clinicians. They're there to follow up with our community and handle whatever follow up is necessary during these mental health issues. OK.
Speaker: All right. So we're going to finish with the tip of the week. So we talked about cameras. Cameras are a big topic. Ring cameras, home cameras, flock cameras, all of the cameras. What we're gonna talk about now are ring cameras, okay? Or those home cameras that you may have at your at your house. So at the Sheriff's Office, we just started a camera registry program where we're asking people with ring cameras, home cameras, to just let us know you have them.
Speaker: And then we can send you a link to whatever information, whatever, phone number or email you provided so we can get that video. But if you have them, make sure you, one, and you live in Incorporated Adams County, please sign up for our program. Make sure you have them and they're active and you check them. Sometimes subscriptions will run out, batteries will run out, people will think that they have cameras that are active and they're actually not, they're not recording. If you have one, maybe it's a visual deterrent, but if you have an incident at your house, not having video is is is a big problem. So technology has evolved and the motion alerts have gotten a lot better. So if you use ever in camera and you got motion alerts every time a piece of trash flew by your house, they've gotten a lot better. So make sure you have those notifications turned on, right? And that way you're you're able to keep an eye on your property and on your house the best you can.
Speaker: All right. Awareness is key. So knowing that these cameras are out and actually monitoring them is, is you know, the best way to keep yourself and your community safe.
Speaker: All right. Cooperating with police. So when we released a camera registry program, people had opinions and that's great. But We just need the evidence. If something happens in front of your house, we can't tap into your cameras. you know Yes, could we serve a warrant? We're not going to most of the time, you know especially if you're a witness, but if you cooperate with us, provide us the video, that's great. Then we can ah go from there and use that evidence to further these investigations.
Speaker: Evidence is key. If we don't have the evidence, we can't do anything with that a lot of times. And so having the cooperation, working hand in hand with with our community is super key. And it's not an arc and on your neighbors. It's trying to keep everyone safe, help us get these investigations solved and pushed forward.
Speaker: Check into your subscription. Some just, you can view it and they don't save it. Some save for 30 days, whatever your subscription that you pay for or may not pay for. Just check that, make sure that's active and where you want it to be.
Speaker: and know how to use them, know how to work these things, know how to save them. Sometimes they're they're pretty user friendly, but sometimes they're a little bit more difficult. So check them out. And then call if you see something suspicious. If you see somebody prowling around your your car at two in the morning, even if something didn't happen, call us because we may have had a vehicle trespass down the street or a burglary where you caught the so the video of the suspect. So make sure you check those, give us a call.
Speaker: You can call 911, obviously, anytime you want for emergencies, but we also have non-emergency number of 303-288-1535, that's our ad-com area.
Speaker: So I think that's it ah that's it for this episode. So if you're watching this on YouTube, we have a QR code, scan it. If you're something that you want us to cover, let us know. You can also send us an email to communityconnections at adamsheriffco.gov for ideas and and things that want us to discuss. Right now we're up on Spotify and YouTube and maybe we're up on Apple when this comes out. If not, check us out on Spotify and YouTube and and we're looking at expanding to other platform apps as well. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss an episode. and then obviously check us out on all the major social media platforms.
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