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This report is to formally request to be considered for the position of Sergeant within the patrol division of the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office. Prior to working for Sumner County, I worked five and a half years for the Sedgwick County Detention Facility, and two years with Wichita State Police Department as a commissioned law enforcement officer. The knowledge I obtained while working for Sedgwick County and Wichita State proved to be invaluable throughout my law enforcement career. While working for Sedgwick County, I learned interpersonal communication skills that taught me how to communicate with not only co-workers but members of the community. Out of all of the training I have received interpersonal communication skills have proven to be the most valuable. In addition, I received training from Sedgwick County that includes crisis intervention, instructor development program, leadership training, and was a field training deputy for three years. The crisis intervention training has benefited my career by not only teaching me warning signs for mental health illness in the individuals I have dealt with. But also warning sings in coworkers due to the high stress of the job we work in. I attended …show more content…

I have also had the anguish of working for some bad supervisors. It is my personal opinion a bad supervisor can turn good employees into negative, non-motivated employees. But on the flip side a good supervisor can balance a shift, keep morale up and have a good working relationship with the shift. I believe that if I am given the opportunity to become a supervisor for Sumner County, I will be ready to apply the positive qualities that I have observed from my previous eight years of working within law enforcement and keep moving forward, learning and molding into a supervisor people want to work

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