Episode 818: Leading From The Bottom Up with Matthew Thomas

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Dennis speaks with Pinal County Deputy Sheriff, Matthew Thomas.

Chief Deputy Matthew Thomas has served the Pinal County Sheriff's Office with distinguishment since 1993. An Arizona native, Chief Thomas humbly began his law enforcement career as a Detention Officer before moving into Patrol, Narcotics Enforcement, SWAT team. Matt was promoted to Chief Deputy in 2016 when Sheriff Mark Lamb was elected. As Chief Deputy for PCSO, Thomas is 2nd in command of the Sheriff’s Office consisting of 233 sworn staff, 207 Detention staff, and 234 civilian support staff and volunteers in a county that is 5,400 square miles with a population of approximately 500,000. Chief Thomas manages an overall budget for the Sheriff’s Office of $47.1 million dollars, oversees all PCSO operations for sworn Deputies, Detention and Civilian staff and acts as the Sheriff’s Senior Executive Officer.

Today, Dennis and Matt discuss leading from the bottom up, setting examples of leadership, taking action and always being pro-active.

More info about Pinal County Sheriffs Office: https://www.pinal.gov/1240/About-Us

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0:00.0	the command structure shit, right? That comes into play because we're in a paramilitary organization, but everybody knows
0:06.8	when that's applicable and they follow those rules and outside of that I'm just a just normal dude talk about normal shit I see people
0:15.3	on the street and they do the hey chief and it's like dude I'm just I'm Matt bro I'm mad with my
0:21.1	kid and you're you know John with your kid and let's just talk about
0:25.4	how's life and what's going on in your world. Welcome to the plane. The train. H-h-h-h-h-hmm.
0:34.0	You training up be a street cop?
0:38.0	Hey guys, what with this episode of the street cop
0:41.0	training podcast?
0:42.0	I'm your host, founder and CEO of
0:42.8	Street Cop Training. My name is Dennis Benino and I met Matt recently at
0:46.2	Chacho with Mark Lamb, ran into him and it was actually a really nice moment
0:49.8	that there were a handful of gentlemen staring at Mark and I and I said, Mark, I think they want to take a picture with you all step to the left and they walked over to me and say can we get a picture with you?
0:57.0	I don't know I guess the American sheriff didn't fucking get this one, huh?
1:00.0	That's right. Too bad, Markie. You watch the real fucking star step over here and take some ticket with some folks.
1:06.2	And I'm telling you I'd never see that.
1:08.0	So that was an awesome moment for you, man.
1:10.2	You out sown the American sheriff. Dude, you got to razz him on that shit non-stop,
1:15.0	because I'll never let him forget that.
1:17.0	Yep, yep, I got you.
1:18.0	So dude, tell us who you are and what you, what you're about.
1:24.0	So Matthew Thomas, I am the chief deputy at the
1:28.0	Penel County Sheriff's Office in Arizona,
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