I sent this to my State Rep. Give me ideas if this is good or bad!
All right, I have a bare bones idea that may be a lot more simple than it sounds.
The State Constables have several levels, correct? Use them and open it up to military retired and honorably discharged, Police that have expired or retired, federal officers that have left in good standing and CWP holders.
Approach North American Rescue with a FILOT deal to provide the vests, Med kits and other needed items.
If schooling is required, allow lottery funds to consider it higher education.
The LEO's that step up have already had the Academy Portion and just need legal updates. The Military will bring a more specialized skill set, give them an accelerated basic in their home county somehow. Sleep at home and be on time the next day for class.
Federal will bring a special skill set as well.
CWP holders maybe the accelerated basic or have the trainers at local agencies teach the class. Allow testing at their local agency or college. Allow Military to use GI Bill for their schooling, they get paid and the state gets some money back for etching them.
Change the Constables to one class. Change the rules from 104 hours a year, to one weekend a month and two weeks a year. Pay a fair wage for training, to cover their time away from work and have their employers make up the difference, to make this an incentive to work. There are enough training centers around the state(military included) to do advanced training, or during their 2 weeks have them train with their County LEO agencies. Cities and Counties will benefit from this and they will get it for no cost. Firearms could be procured from agency upgrades. Say they go from a Glock .40 cal Gen 1 to a Gen 2, have the agencies give them to SLED and have them issue to each Constable. Have a County Command Staff, or Zone them in a DNR hunt zone. Stay with statewide jurisdiction and after a certain, agreed upon time, allow them to operate on their own, to supplement agencies that are low on manpower. Require attendance at training days and reduce the hour per year.
As I see it, it is a win/win for the state. You get more boots on the ground in each county, the counties, cities and State of SC lead the way in establishing a model to be followed by others and you get the knowledge and experience of 100's of volunteers for little cost to the tax payer.
Tell me what you think. I have been putting a lot of thought into this. If you go under the National Guard, the response will be slower.
On to communications. We would need a VHF repeater system that could be integrated with Pal 800. I believe any radio will work and we can purchase a radio for anywhere from $45- whatever they want to spend. When a problem arises a local agency can call Pal 800 and have them link the systems until the emergency is declared over by the Leader of the unified command system, JOC or whichever system they choose.
Weapons issued should be common, so that if Jim is low on ammo, Joe can toss a magazine to him.
Have each person qualify yearly on shooting and driving. Here, we could ask to borrow the test track on Hwy 39 for a block of time.
The state owns land all over, build a few inexpensive crisis houses and a shooting range in each county.
Allow the public to use the ranges when not in use by the State Constables, and disallow them use to the crisis houses. If built right, the configuration of the rooms can be changed each time. Have the National guard build these for their weekends and camps.
The Constables could also train with our National Guard for call outs with them, if needed.
Like I said, I have put a lot of thoughts and late nights into this. We know that the threat is growing, we have our own families to consider as well as those of the The Leaders Constituents.
Showing the constituency that the government cares enough to ramp up their protection, while saving tons of money will look great at election time for all of you. I know that this will not happen overnight, however it needs to be as fast as possible to prevent active shooter situations or at least let the bad guys know that we are ready in SC.
We know from San Bernadino, Paris and other situations that they have no regard for human life. We, however, know that the best way to preserve life in an active shooter situation is to stop the shooter, as quickly as possible and by only as much force as necessary.
In my humble opinion, adding to the Constabulary System will be the best option. Easier to call in, especially if we add a channel for paging to each counties radio system and advise where the group needs to muster for the call.
The whole system will work similar to the Reserve program, there will just need to be mor training and dedication.
Thanks for your time,
Steve
Call me when you read through this and tell me what you think!
All right, I have a bare bones idea that may be a lot more simple than it sounds.
The State Constables have several levels, correct? Use them and open it up to military retired and honorably discharged, Police that have expired or retired, federal officers that have left in good standing and CWP holders.
Approach North American Rescue with a FILOT deal to provide the vests, Med kits and other needed items.
If schooling is required, allow lottery funds to consider it higher education.
The LEO's that step up have already had the Academy Portion and just need legal updates. The Military will bring a more specialized skill set, give them an accelerated basic in their home county somehow. Sleep at home and be on time the next day for class.
Federal will bring a special skill set as well.
CWP holders maybe the accelerated basic or have the trainers at local agencies teach the class. Allow testing at their local agency or college. Allow Military to use GI Bill for their schooling, they get paid and the state gets some money back for etching them.
Change the Constables to one class. Change the rules from 104 hours a year, to one weekend a month and two weeks a year. Pay a fair wage for training, to cover their time away from work and have their employers make up the difference, to make this an incentive to work. There are enough training centers around the state(military included) to do advanced training, or during their 2 weeks have them train with their County LEO agencies. Cities and Counties will benefit from this and they will get it for no cost. Firearms could be procured from agency upgrades. Say they go from a Glock .40 cal Gen 1 to a Gen 2, have the agencies give them to SLED and have them issue to each Constable. Have a County Command Staff, or Zone them in a DNR hunt zone. Stay with statewide jurisdiction and after a certain, agreed upon time, allow them to operate on their own, to supplement agencies that are low on manpower. Require attendance at training days and reduce the hour per year.
As I see it, it is a win/win for the state. You get more boots on the ground in each county, the counties, cities and State of SC lead the way in establishing a model to be followed by others and you get the knowledge and experience of 100's of volunteers for little cost to the tax payer.
Tell me what you think. I have been putting a lot of thought into this. If you go under the National Guard, the response will be slower.
On to communications. We would need a VHF repeater system that could be integrated with Pal 800. I believe any radio will work and we can purchase a radio for anywhere from $45- whatever they want to spend. When a problem arises a local agency can call Pal 800 and have them link the systems until the emergency is declared over by the Leader of the unified command system, JOC or whichever system they choose.
Weapons issued should be common, so that if Jim is low on ammo, Joe can toss a magazine to him.
Have each person qualify yearly on shooting and driving. Here, we could ask to borrow the test track on Hwy 39 for a block of time.
The state owns land all over, build a few inexpensive crisis houses and a shooting range in each county.
Allow the public to use the ranges when not in use by the State Constables, and disallow them use to the crisis houses. If built right, the configuration of the rooms can be changed each time. Have the National guard build these for their weekends and camps.
The Constables could also train with our National Guard for call outs with them, if needed.
Like I said, I have put a lot of thoughts and late nights into this. We know that the threat is growing, we have our own families to consider as well as those of the The Leaders Constituents.
Showing the constituency that the government cares enough to ramp up their protection, while saving tons of money will look great at election time for all of you. I know that this will not happen overnight, however it needs to be as fast as possible to prevent active shooter situations or at least let the bad guys know that we are ready in SC.
We know from San Bernadino, Paris and other situations that they have no regard for human life. We, however, know that the best way to preserve life in an active shooter situation is to stop the shooter, as quickly as possible and by only as much force as necessary.
In my humble opinion, adding to the Constabulary System will be the best option. Easier to call in, especially if we add a channel for paging to each counties radio system and advise where the group needs to muster for the call.
The whole system will work similar to the Reserve program, there will just need to be mor training and dedication.
Thanks for your time,
Steve
Call me when you read through this and tell me what you think!