Episode 866: Making Difficult Decisions with Matthew Thomas
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 46 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 making hard decisions to benefit the betterment of your agency, being the best leader you can be and the importance of relationships in and out of law enforcement.
More info about Pinal County Sheriffs Office: https://www.pinal.gov/1240/About-Us
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| 1:03.0 | I forgot what it is a hot-up. |
| 1:05.0 | You trying to be a street cop? |
| 1:10.0 | I just saw a video of a chief in Florida. I don't know if it's an old video or a new video and this dude is such a piece of shit that he will not back his officer that he stops a guy, dude bales out of a car a guy goes like cuff him he has to punch him twice |
| 1:27.1 | got a gun in his pocket and the chief's like well I mean I'm not taking sides here |
| 1:31.6 | like what an awful human being and I feel like making a |
| 1:36.5 | post on social media like if you work for this guy run for the hills no you work for |
| 1:41.2 | somebody who works for somebody like this, run for the hills because it's a clear put, adequate, appropriate use of force. |
| 1:50.0 | Nobody was killed, nobody's shot. And this is such a piece of shit that he will not |
| 1:55.8 | back his police officers he's scared self-interested. Dude I know what do you think about |
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