A Positive Approach & A Strong Impact
What Sheriff Hodapp Delivers
Instituting Proactive Policing Strategy
- Securing $250K in grant funding to assist in the investigation and apprehension of violent offenders involved in gang, gun and drug trafficking
- Reducing crime in the rural areas
- Increasing enforcement of DWI laws
- Reducing number of fatal crashes on county highways
- Reducing crime in the Leech Lake Reservation through Community Policing Deputy deployment
- Auditing services to increase efficiencies and focus funding on Public Safety Duties
- Installing on-board digital video recorders, communications technologies and computers in squad cars
- Revising and updating Beltrami County Policy Manual
- Instituting new policy manual for Sheriff’s office, including staff training
- Controlling costs for housing jail inmates while maintaining DOC certification
- Moving to new Judicial Center and provide top-notch facility security
- Improving technologies to support Records Management Program, Computer Aided Dispatch and Mobile Field Reporting
- Providing Crisis Intervention Team training for officers and jail staff through Upper Mississippi Mental Health Center
- Supporting formation of local Mobile Crisis Intervention
- Receiving and providing
- Providing training and oversight for professional law enforcement staff and volunteer organizations, including: Sheriff’s Posse, Community Guard, Bemidji Citizen’s Patrol, First Responders, Paul Bunyan Radio Club, ELF- Enabling Law Enforcement, Civil Air Patrol, Lakes Area Dive Team
- Supporting the Family Advocacy Center of Northern Minnesota
- Providing deputies to teach students about the dangers of drugs/alcohol through the DARE Program
- Supporting the efforts of the Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety to protect women, children and men who experience violence in their homes
- Supporting Headwaters Alliance for Suicide Prevention
- Active member of Minnesota Sheriff’s Association
- Elected as District One Representative for the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association Executive Board
- Member of the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association Strategic Planning Committee
- Appointed the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association Representative to the DNR ATV/OHV Advisory Board
- Serves on Minnesota Sheriff’s Association’s Lexipol Policy Project Advisory Group, charged to develop the statewide policy manual for Minnesota’s 87 sheriff’s offices
- Advisory Board member of the Family Advocacy Center of Northern Minnesota
- Board Vice Chair of the Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety
- Member on the Bemidji Area Race Relations Council
- With Communications Supervisor Beryl Wernberg, Sheriff Hodapp serves on the Northwest Regional Radio Advisory Council
- Chief Deputy Mike Bakke serves on the Northwest Indian OIC Executive Board
- Assistant Jail Administrator Bill Ahern serves as a board member for the Boy’s and Girl’s Club of Bemidji