Such arguments would be equally lacking in merit.

The truth is, she’s right - Frederick started the finger pointing during his campaign for chairman when he ran against Hager - he blamed Hager for losses. So, if he’s going to blame another chairman for losses, he has to take responsibility when he is chairman. Had he not started the finger pointing to the chairman, I wouldn’t feel that way. But what’s good for the goose…

BTW, I should not have used the word “encouraged”, so “intimidated”
works better.

People are entitled to their opinions, I may not agree….and often don’t, however if they start stating facts they need to be accurate.

Sadly sometimes it comes from some of our own R’s. I truly believe if we spent more time within the ‘R” family in finding ways to come together on the topics that we are all strong on and sitting down and civilly discussing our differences and what we can do about those areas we would be far better off in presenting a uniformed front

You are WRONG!!!!! Please educate yourself.

The prior program of which you speak was called “Safe Return” and was funded through a grant that expired almost 4 years ago. That program was nothing more than a bracelet with the persons ID info on it. If a patient went missing it took enormous County and State resources to locate the missing person.

Project Lifesaver is a program that has special bracelet worn by the patient that emits a radio signal and if they go missing the Sheriffs office will respond with a wand used for tracking. The tracking takes minutes as opposed to hours or days. Several years ago they had a 100 % success rate with for finding lost patients. I have not heard of any changes and would suspect that it is still the case.

A request was made to the BOCS several years ago to look into Project Lifesaver and after research the PD came back that they could not justify the cost. At that time Prince William County was the only one in the area that did not participate.

Those of us with loved ones with medical issues desperately needed this program; we held our breath hoping our loved ones would get lost.

Thankfully Sherriff Hill and his staff worked to bring this innovative and technologically advanced program to Prince William County and funded it through an out reach to local business.

Who DID start Project Lifesaver in PWC??

If he didn’t care about people he would not have worked to get contributions from business in the area to fund Project Lifesaver for people with Alzheimer’s and other memory or wandering issues.

He was able to deliver when the BOCS and the Police Department couldn’t, and he did this with out being fully funded by taxpayer expense…sounds like a good individual that sees a need in our community and gets things done with out raising our taxes.

Why don’t you just come on out and say the current sheriff is only in office for a paycheck and doesn’t really care about the people or the community…..That’s what you are saying.

What you need to understand is that the Prince William Sheriff’s office is no longer the PRIMARY law enforcement office and isn’t run by a person with a massive ego and as such doesn’t jump out of a car with a radar gun when you call because they are beholden to YOU.

I have discussed this before that the Sheriff’s office does back up the police when the police request it, they aren’t out there on their own in forcing what the police should be doing. The current Sheriff doesn’t have an ego that needs to be filled. He has developed a very good working relationship with the police.

So what do you want, to have two separate law enforcement agencies in Prince William County, each with their own policies and procedures? What is that called….hhhmmmm duplicative services and a waste of tax payers dollars!

You seem angry that the Sheriffs office isn’t there for you to do your calling as you wish, if that is the case then go to the Board with your request to undo what they did in 1970 or solicit for a funding increase or to slice junk out of their budget so they can be beholden to you.

Put candidates in there worthy of being elected and they will be. Gilmore should not have been nominated to run. He had to much baggage over the car tax fiasco. I truly believe that Bob Marshall would have made the difference.

Jeff has brushed aside the petty attacks from the press and the brutal stuff coming from the lefty blogs and kept his nose to the grindstone doing the job he was elected to do…and keeping his promise to rebuild the grassroots operations of the RPV.

Obama’s victory was in no way a reflection on Jeff Frederick’s job as RPV Chairman, it was proof that Jeff was right all along about what needs to be FIXED NOW at RPV.

In terms of the constitutional office of Sheriff..

§ 15.2-1609. Sheriff.

The voters in every county and city shall elect a sheriff unless otherwise provided by general law or special act. The sheriff shall exercise all the powers conferred and perform all the duties imposed upon sheriffs by general law. He shall enforce the law or see that it is enforced in the locality from which he is elected; assist in the judicial process as provided by general law; and be charged with the custody, feeding and care of all prisoners confined in the county or city jail. He may perform such other duties, not inconsistent with his office, as may be requested of him by the governing body. The sheriff shall be elected as provided by general law for a term of four years.

Now, PWCPD and the PWC Sheriff’s Department did sign an MOA detailing that the Sheriff’s department would concentrate on it’s role with the court but you make it sound like deputies don’t have jurisdiction within PWC - which they do. But, at this time they don’t excercise it.

And, thats unfortunate. Because, like him or not when I as a private citizen would call up the sheriff’s office and ask for ‘traffic enforcement’ on my road I had a deputy report there with radar gun in hand pretty darn quick. Tell me how long you’ll have to wait to see a PWCPD officer do the same. You’ll keep waiting. I was told that they have 6 hours worth of ‘elective traffic enforcement’ in “non-patrolled areas”.

And, that is the difference between a person that I can vote in and out of office and one that has a job for life. I’d replace the PWCPD with more deputies any day of the week - because they are accountable to ME - a voter and taxpayer.

I don’t care if we have a dem or a repub as Sheriff - as long as when I call them they’ll get a car out where I want them because they’re beholden to me as an elected law enforcement officer.