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Auxiliary Program The Weld County Sheriff's Office has 4 components of the volunteers. Posse, Reserves, Volunteers and Explorers. The members meet the second Monday evening of each month at the Training Center 1104 H St. The program is not supported by the sheriff's office budget. The budget the program has to work with comes from the contributions made to the program. This money is spent on training and incentives. The Posse The posse members consist of volunteers, level 1 reserves and full time deputies who enjoy law enforcement activities on horseback. Eighty members strong activities range from providing security at Weld County's largest event known as the Greeley Independence Stampede to visiting with residents of local nursing homes with the horses. Posse members are often called upon to assist with searches in a criminal case or searching for a missing persons or riot control. As members of the Colorado State Posse Association participants compete in the annual state meet hosted in counties across the state. 40 hr training courses are conducted utilizing instructors from the membership.
Reserves and Volunteers The Reserves and volunteers are the ground support of the program. The difference separating the two is the level of training. The reserves have an appointment from the sheriff as a commissioned peace officer while working at the direction of the sheriff's office. The reserves have received the same training as a full time deputy and are required to maintain annual qualification in the 3 skills areas. The volunteers contribute their time in the many areas they may have expertise. Searches, security on crime scenes or sporting events are just a few of the assignments. The Explorers
The Law Enforcement Explorer Post # 459 is a
partnership between the Weld County Sheriff's Office and The Learning for Life
Division of the Boy Scouts of America. The program is designed for young men and
women between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one interested in pursuing a
career in law enforcement. As an explorer, you will have the opportunity to see
and experience many of the career possibilities by experiencing them firsthand
in a safe and controlled environment. This program will allow you to experience
the field of law enforcement through: Through this program, the explorers will have the opportunity to put their skills to work at the Greeley Independence Day Stampede concerts, security and traffic control at various Weld County events, regional police explorer competitions, and local parades. The explorer program also includes many fun extracurricular activities such as hiking, camping, rock climbing and rappelling, and holiday parties. This is a great place for young men and women with a common career interest to work together, earn scholarships, and achieve their goal of attaining a fulfilling career in the field of law enforcement. Each year, our explorer post participates in the L.E.E.P.A.A.C, (Law Enforcement Post Advisors Association of Colorado), regional conference held at the beautiful Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs. This is a week-long conference which includes police topic seminars such as; death investigation, officer safety, fatal traffic crash investigation, community based policing, and others. The conference also holds the annual regional police skills competition, where explorers compete for awards and recognition in high risk entry, domestic violence call response, high risk traffic stops, physical agility, bomb searches, building searches, report writing, and more. The explorer post meets every Monday from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at the Weld County Sheriff's Office Headquarters currently at 910 tenth Avenue, (soon to be at 1950 'O' Street) in Greeley. The cost is $7.00 per year for liability insurance. If you'd like more information, please contact Deputy Todd Deutsch at (970) 356-4015 ext: 4304 or Deputy Mike Wilson at (970) 356-4015 ext: 4175.
The auxiliary program is overseen by two sheriff's office commanders who are liaison between the sheriff's office and the explorer program. |
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