Timothy B. Howard - Erie County Sheriff

Timothy B. Howard is running for the office of Erie County Sheriff. The job of the sheriff is to be the head law enforcement office of the county in which you provide certain towns with police protection. The sheriff's department has the right to help local governments with highway patrol and solving certain types of crimes. Within the sheriff's department there are special units for fighting crime. Such units are the Communications Bureau, the Fire Investigation Unit, the Narcotics Enforcement Unit, and the Intelligence Bureau. Deputy Sheriffs are put in charge of transporting prisoners to and from the court and between jails in and out of Erie counties. The sheriffs department is also the head security personnel in the court house as well. The sheriffs department is a vital part of the for Erie county. That is why a right leader and server for the public welfare are needed and the man to do all that is Timothy B. Howard.

Timothy B. Howard is running for re-election as Erie County Sheriff and is a member of the Republican, Conservative, and Reform parties. Sheriff Howard is fifty-five years old and resides at 11523 Carpenter Road, South Wales, New York 14139. Tim Howard's current occupation is the Erie County under sheriff. He has held that position for about seven years now. Sheriff Howard is extremely qualified for the position of Erie county sheriff his experience goes as follows. He has served for thirty-three consecutive years in the law enforcement profession; he served twenty-four years with the New York State Police Department. Sheriff Howard has also received six promotions and has received the highest award for bravery. When Tim Howard became under sheriff he held the fourth highest rank for the state police. Sheriff Howard received his education at the New York State Police Academy and Criminal Justice at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

A few ways in which Sheriff Howard believes that the Sheriff's department can be improved is to hire more personnel in order to keep Erie County as safe as it has been for the last number of year with Tim Howard as Sheriff. He also feels that because of the increase of public trust in the sheriff's department that has led to a great demand for the service of the sheriff's but there is not enough funds to keep this service free of cost. Tim Howard has a right idea in asking certain towns and villages that want sheriff patrol to pay slightly for it just because

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