Wednesday, July 8, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
LT. BAILEY: Information
officer was recently
promoted
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officer and 18 as a full-time
deputy. For the last three
years, he has served as the
Public Information Officer
(PIO) for the DCSO, deal-
ing with the public and the
media.
Prior to his position as the
PIO, he served as a correc-
tions deputy at the jail for six
years. He went on to serve as
a patrol officer, a field train-
ing officer, a criminal detec-
tive, a streets crime detective,
and a patrol sergeant super-
visor. When social media
began gaining traction in area
police departments, provid-
ing them with their own plat-
forms to communicate with
the public, Bailey applied for
the new position of PIO. In
that position, he provides a
single point of contact within
the DCSO for the public and
the media for accurate infor-
mation, statistics, and he
facilitates interviews with the
appropriate person at DCSO.
He is continuing in that
role while serving the people
of Sisters. He is currently
training the sergeant who will
replace him. When his Sisters
stint is completed, Bailey
will join one of four patrol
teams throughout the county.
Bailey indicated he has
loved serving the office of
the sheriff in his PIO posi-
tion. He worked in Bend out
of the sheriff9s office, where
he had access to the sheriff.
<My job is to help our
department be as transparent
and accessible to the pub-
lic and media as possible,=
Bailey said in describing his
PIO job. <All we ask is the
media be fair and accurate
with us.=
After graduating from
Garibaldi High School,
Bailey joined the Coast
Guard after observing them
working when he served as a
deck hand on a charter boat.
He started in the Coast Guard
doing mostly safety inspec-
tions on boats on the Oregon
coast and then served in
North Carolina on a 210-foot
cutter doing drug interdiction
and interacting with Haitian
vessels trying to flee to the
U.S. He first experienced
the DCSO while doing some
training with their marine
patrol while in the Coast
Guard.
After his Coast Guard
duty was completed, he
ended up Bend, working at
G. I. Joe9s where he met and
married his wife and has been
here ever since. With their
two children, Bailey and his
wife enjoy outdoor activities
and time spent at the beach
where Bailey9s parents still
live. He also likes to fish and
hunt big game.
<When something is new,
it9s always exciting,= Bailey
said about being a part of the
new relation with the City.
<It9s exciting for both sides.
And we look forward to pro-
viding the level of service the
City is expecting.=
Besides performing their
normal public safety and law
enforcement duties, Bailey
said Sheriff Shane Nelson
wants Sisters residents to
know the deputies are avail-
able to meet any reasonable
personal need of a resident.
Bailey is available to
speak to local groups, ser-
vice organizations, school
groups 4 anyone wanting
to know more about policing
in the community and pro-
grams and services available
through the DCSO.
Bailey brings to his
interim position in Sisters
the desire to always give 110
percent, 20 years of experi-
ence in police work, good
working relationships with
the media, genuine conge-
niality, a desire to serve the
public, and a warm smile.
Bailey said the three per-
manent deputies have not yet
been assigned to duty as new
recruits are currently being
trained to take the places
of more seasoned officers
who will be sent to Sisters.
ASSAULT: Incident
remains under
investigation
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Lt. Bill Bailey will be the interim supervisor for the new Sisters sheriff’s
deputies who will be on patrol later this summer.
Residents may have already
noticed a greater police pres-
ence around town with more
traffic stops in evidence.
When the full-time perma-
nent lieutenant and three
deputies are based here, the
citizens, businesspeople, and
police officers will be able to
get to know one another and
form relationships.
In addition to Sisters9
own DCSO officers, the
<west car,= which has always
patrolled the greater Sisters
area and beyond, will still
be in service. Our officers
will be on duty in Sisters
with four 10-hour shifts, two
during the day and two at
night, leaving the west car to
respond between about 2 a.m.
to 6 a.m. when things are
pretty buttoned up in Sisters.
Their patrol cars will be
identical to the current black
and white DCSO vehicles
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but will also have the City
of Sisters logo or name on it.
The officers will be able to
be out of their cars, walking
the streets, or on their bikes,
meeting and talking with
residents and tourists, while
having the call responsibili-
ties within the City limits.
With two officers on a shift,
there will be coverage when
one has to appear in court,
attend trainings, or take time
off.
that a 21-year-old Sisters
woman reported that as
she was walking on a trail
at about 11:30 a.m., a man
walking the trail in the
opposite direction assaulted
her. The woman had some
bruising and a scuffed knee,
the sheriff reported.
<Her statement was
taken and some pictures of
injuries,= he said. <She had
no idea who he was. We9re
working on very limited
information right now.=
Two JeffCo deputies
and U.S. Forest Service
law enforcement searched
the area but were unable to
located the subject, who is
described as having dirty
blonde, shoulder length hair,
about 5-feet-10-inches tall,
wearing a blue-and-purple
beanie cap, long-sleeved
shirt and dark cargo shorts.
The investigation and the
attempt to locate the subject
is ongoing.
Sheriff Adkins asked
that anyone with informa-
tion regarding the inci-
dent contact the Jefferson
County Sheriff9s Office at
541-475-6520.
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