06/07/2026
This week in a quick round-up. First of all, on Thursday we had an officers meeting in our absolutely ROASTING hot patrol room, everyone except Officer Smith who was on scheduled annual leave was there. The Salty Bird, thank you! Your pizza, breadsticks and salad are wonderful and make a great addition to our meeting; and, who doesn’t want to support local business. I think some good info, some good laughs and some of the necessary course correction moments. I presented the Chief’s Coin to several members for some notable accomplishments.
Sgt Adamo for juggling us all, schedules, training, field training, etc., all the while doing regular patrol work at the same time.
Sgt Dean for not only managing a very heavy investigative tasking load, he’s managing outfitting the new cars, the testing for and purchase of replacement fi****ms, PepperBall non-lethal launchers, Taser training, background investigations and s*x offender registration. And more.
Officers S Barker and Sexson for standing up and managing a very successful advanced first aide (TachMed) training program.
Officer Obaid for volunteering to become, and working through the training to be our fi****ms instructor.
Officer A Barker for her work on the Explorer Cadet program (we not only have availability, we have snacks!)
Officer Wilson for his outstanding work with Suquamish youth
Next item: I accepted the invitation to speak at the Suquamish Citizens Advisory Council, also on Thursday evening, and we discussed my views on several issues and I heard the worries about traffic and speeding. I heard about walkers and speeding in an area I never thought would be a problem so I’m glad to have heard it, and I did hear it.
We had some activity which caused us to call upon the Bremerton PD for assistance with a canine; Officer Judd and her partner Mayhem, a sweetheart of a pooch by the way, arrived to help us out. Did you ask about canine? I’m pretty sure you did and now that you’ve asked, SPD is looking to restore our canine team, plus! We are working through the application process for an emotional support service pooch. This dog will be with Rachel T and will be available to support people in court, maybe those providing troubling information, those that need to relax, kids in crisis, etc. I think two or three times a week she will take her fuzzy partner over to the admin building for our fellow employees to enjoy as well. It’s a lengthy process and I’ll keep you informed as we progress. We are also moving forward to restore the illegal substance detection canine team, a drug dog, or two, as we can. Another complex process and again, I’ll keep you informed.
Lastly, Student Officers Austin, Torres and Brealan-Bayes were ‘exposed to the Taser’. Members of the the Suquamish Tribal Council, the police advisory committee and select members of tribal government were present and I’m sure videos have been posted by them elsewhere, who knows. Info on the Taser and the PepperBall launcher was provided along with the demo. As a bonus for our student officers, wives, girlfriends and mom got the invitation to observe the process.
Look to the photos for info on some replacement patrol cars.
If anyone has questions just let me know; the days are getting longer, get outside and get all the sun and weather and try to be the person your dog thinks you are.
- Chief
