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Please RSVP to the Yuma County Lincoln Day Dinner below. The dinner will be Friday, March 19th, 6:30pm at the Lutheran Round Building. The cost is $25 for Adults, $12.50 for students and children. We hope to have Paypal payment options available soon. So for now, we will take your reservation and collect payment at the door. Thank you!
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We want YOU to be involved in the grassroots political process. It all starts with your local precinct caucus. At the caucuses, you will meet with your neighbors to talk about the issues and our Republican primary candidates. You will have the opportunity become more involved as well. We will elect 2 precinct chairs at each caucus, and we will elect delegates to the County Assembly. Those delegates will get the first vote on any Republican primary candidates for county office.
Also at the precinct caucus you can be nominated to run for delegates to the District and State Assemblies. You do not have to be present at the Precint Caucus to be nominated for those delegate spots. If you have any questions, feel free to email jeremy@yumacountyrepublicans.com. Here are the important dates.
March 16th
April 10th
May 21-22
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After spending nearly 8 years with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, Yuma county native Chad Day has returned home to raise his family and seek the office of Yuma County Sheriff.
Chad was born in Wray and lived in rural Yuma County until he graduated from Yuma High School in 1994. He graduated from Colorado State University in 1999 and went on to own and operate three different businesses. In 2002 he felt called into law enforcement and joined the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office. His first 2 years were spent developing his skills in the detention center followed by 6 more years on enforcement, leadership and administrative roles in the patrol division, including the SWAT team. In just 3 years on patrol Day had earned the rank of Corporal.
During his time with the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, Day received an average of 100 hours of scheduled in-service training each year as well as approximately 350 hours of additional training per year for his peripheral duties. Day was an Arrest Control and Self Defense Instructor for 7 years. After 2 years as a SWAT sniper, Day became a Sniper Instructor with training through the Rocky Mountain Sniper Association. Many of his Law Enforcement Supervision courses were conducted through Aims Community College and County Sheriff’s of Colorado. Chad has even been published in the County Sheriff’s of Colorado magazine.
As a patrol officer, Day responded to and was involved with the investigations of many high profile cases including SWAT situations, serious assaults, riots, missing endangered persons, sex assaults, homicide, and various types of illicit drug-related crimes.
Chad’s law enforcement philosophy is to identify those crimes that pose the biggest threat to the people of Yuma County and their property, and aggressively and creatively fight against them. Illicit drug crimes (including theft, burglary, and criminal mischief committed by those supporting their drug activities), driving under the influence, and domestic violence all fall under that category and will be his biggest priority. It has been Chad’s experience that tackling those crimes generally reduces the calls for service and the overall crime rates.
Chad knows that law enforcement is not about having all of the answers. No amount of experience or training courses will equip a person to “do it all alone”. Both enforcing and the administration of the law enforcement process, as well as almost every other area of life is most successfully managed if one has access to quality resources and knows when and how to use them. Chad knows the most important and valuable resource in the successful administration of the law is the people that are charged with enforcement. The right people have unmatched integrity, are thoroughly competent, and therefore, can be most successful in reducing and preventing dangerous risks to our community.
Yuma County will have limited funds to allocate to the Sheriff’s Office and those fiscal challenges will continue to grow. It is the Sheriff’s responsibility to use the available allocation of funds efficiently, and to aggressively and creatively seek additional funds from other sources such as government and private grants which are certainly available.
The Sheriff should be humble enough to seek input from the community about their law enforcement concerns, and address them appropriately. The Sheriff should facilitate ongoing community education where citizens are given information to help themselves and each other become safer and more informed about how to assist in crime prevention.
Another responsibility of the Sheriff that Chad will pursue further is to maintain close working relationships with our local legislators, so that they know what is important to their communities, and he will be in a position to quickly know when laws change.
Day also understands the responsability of the Sheriff to operate the Yuma County Jail and believes detention should not be a comfortable experience. It should be safe, secure, and should provide opportunities for detainees to better themselves and rehabilitate, but also deter them from choices that result in future detention or incarceration.
As part of his campaign launch, Chad will be hosting meet and greet events in both Yuma, at Quintech from 9 to 11 am, and in Wray at the WRAC from 2 to 4 pm, on February 27th. For more information, including support options and the latest updates, visit Chad’s website at www.chaddayforsheriff.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
YUMA COUNTY MAN ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR SHERIFF
Mike Dickson offers professionalism, investigative experience, and
knowledge of rural law enforcement to Yuma County citizens
WRAY, COLO. – February 3, 2010 – Yuma County native Mike Dickson announced today his candidacy for Yuma County Sheriff. Dickson pledged quality law enforcement featuring, “professionalism, experience, integrity, and community service to the residents of the county”.
Dickson grew up in the Vernon area, where his family homesteaded, and is a graduate of Wray High School. He recently moved back to the area and re-established his residency.
“I look forward to working with members of the community in keeping Yuma County free of those activities which tarnish the rural way of life,” Dickson said.
Dickson would bring years of law-enforcement experience to the county position. He served nearly 31 years with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, retiring as a lieutenant in 2007. During that time he was an investigator for more than 22 years and also worked in Patrol, Detentions and Administrative Services. Due in part to his rural background, Dickson was frequently assigned as patrol deputy to the East District, encompassing hundreds of square miles of rural unincorporated Arapahoe County as well as the towns of Byers, Deer Trail, Strasburg, Watkins and Bennett.
As an investigator, Dickson worked cases ranging from homicides to petty thefts many times in those same rural areas. Additionally, he trained and supervised deputies in all divisions and taught numerous classes in law enforcement integrity, ethics, professionalism, leadership, and investigative techniques.
Dickson served six years in the Bureau of Professional Standards/Internal Affairs, the unit charged with maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards in the agency. While in Internal Affairs, Dickson worked first as a Deputy Inspector and later as Inspector overseeing periodic reviews by The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). Arapahoe County was one of the first agencies to receive a CALEA five star accreditation as an agency, for its patrol, investigations, detention and detention medical services areas.
In addition, Dickson served as a member of the 18th Judicial District’s Serious Habitual Offender/Directed Intervention Task Force which helped develop the Juvenile Intensive Supervision Probation Program, providing special attention and redirection to repeat juvenile offenders to reduce recidivism. He also worked closely with members of the Sheriff’s Office assigned to the South Metro Drug Task Force and taught investigative techniques at the Highlands Ranch Law Enforcement Training Facility.
Dickson attended the American Institute of Polygraph Technology and Applied Psychology, accredited through the University of Northern Michigan, to become a polygraph examiner. Over 20 years, he conducted hundreds of polygraph examinations for local state and federal agencies throughout the United States.
Dickson received a Bachelors of Science in Aviation/Business Mgmt. from Metro State College in Denver. He is also a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Police Staff and Command Training, similar to the FBI Academy. He has taken intensive courses in psychological profiling, investigative and training evaluation, and national incident management, and annually participated in more than 120 hours of required in-house training, in subjects ranging from ethics to arrest techniques.
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Sheriff Sam McCoy will be seeking a third term in Office as Yuma County Sheriff.
McCoy has been Yuma County Resident for forty six years and started his career with the Sheriff’s Office in July of 1981 after serving in the United States Army as a Military Policeman for three years. McCoy has worked his way through the ranks of the Sheriff Office serving as a Deputy Sheriff, Sergeant and Undersheriff. In January of 2002 McCoy was appointed as Sheriff by the Yuma County Commissioners to complete the last year of former Sheriff Bruce Zulauf’s term of office. In 2003 McCoy took office as the elected Sheriff of Yuma County. McCoy is an active member with the County Sheriff’s of Colorado, Western States Sheriff’s Association, National Sheriff’s Association, Pacific Association of Computer Voice Stress Annalists and the National Rifle Association. McCoy also serves as the Vice Chairman for the Eastern Colorado Plains Drug Task Force, board member on the Logan County Community Corrections Board, board member of the Washington Yuma Counties Communications Board, North East Region Peace Officer Standards Training Committee and a member of the Communities Coming Together steering committee. McCoy has attended numerous advanced law enforcement training classes and has obtained several certifications to include: NRA certified instructor for handgun, shotgun, patrol rifle, and tactical firearms.
HIDTA certified clandestine laboratory investigations and dismantling. HIDTA certified clandestine laboratory site safety officer. NIMS 700, Incident Command Systems 100, 200, 300, 400 and 800 certified, just to name a few. McCoy has put together a well trained staff and has been sending his officers to several specialized schools to become instructors in several different disciplines to continue to improve the effectiveness of his office. McCoy has found the Office of Sheriff to be very challenging as well as rewarding and would like to continue to protect and serve the citizens of Yuma County with Pride, Professionalism and Dignity.
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