Excerpt of a Porter County Indiana council meeting in 2007, Mr. Gensel is talking...
Mr. Gensel, Well part of the plan, and again, you’ve got, whether or not you got a chance to look at it, you got the presentations that I’ve given to three people, three members of the Council, personally. When you have a larger unit, you have the ability to do such things as, interdiction, you’ll have guys running the streets and interdicting drugs as its going hither and yon. You have the opportunity to make seizures, when we know drugs and money are running on our highways. Guys who are trained to do that can make those types of stops.
One of the things the Sheriff mentioned--which I was noting in my head--is that, this whole comp-time thing. Well I’ve got, the Unit has three undercover guys, but in any given week, you know, one of them, I mean really you have a couple, because somebody’s on vacation, somebody’s got comp-time, so you have safety issues. I mean more people means that there’s more ability to, you know, have back up and surveillance, all of these types of things. Can I say that we’ll have 400 arrests next year, I wouldn’t be surprised, if we had eight guys in the unit. I mean it’s driven, the drugs are out there. The drug dealers are out there. I mean we know that. It’s kind of a shooting a fish in a barrel sort of analogy. I can’t tell you we’re going to triple it, quadruple it, or whatever.
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