Platform  -  2006,  2010

2006 Campaign Platform/Results

Reduce the number of outstanding warrants (Accomplished)

• Reduced outstanding warrants by 38% as of May 2010

• Conducted innovative/creative arrest stings (Comptroller’s Tax Refund Sting, Flowers by Ron Sting, KeystoneCandigram Sting)

• Conducted aggressive arrest sweeps in targeted communities (Operation Rope A Dope, many unnamed covert warrant sweeps, Fall 2009 Leaf Sweep)

• “Creation of New Domestic Violence Unit” Created a Domestic Violence Unit, staffed with four (4) deputies and one sergeant, responsible for aggressively serving all domestic violence orders to include warrants, protective orders and peace orders

• Create a Task Force with surrounding agencies.  This idea was expounded upon by conducting countless joint arrest warrant operations with the Maryland State Police, Annapolis City Police Department, the Anne Arundel County Police Department, and the US Marshall’s Office throughout the term

• Worked in cooperation with the Motor Vehicle Administration of Maryland to identify deceased individuals who were also wanted for crime(s) and purge their existing warrants

• Worked jointly with State’s Attorney Frank Weathersbee to audit and review old outstanding non-violent misdemeanor warrants

• Tight Fiscal Accountability”  Conducted the mission of the Sheriff’s Office for 4 years achieving remarkable results in many areas, while maintaining strict fiscal accountability.  During this 4 year period, the Sheriff’s Office, under the leadership of Sheriff Bateman, has never exceeded his annual budget allotment

Work with the county administration to increase the pay of the deputy sheriffs (Accomplished)

• By building a positive relation with the Leopold Administration the deputies union and I were able to successfully negotiate salary increases for the deputy sheriffs

• By creating and lobbying for a bill which became law to increase service fees on summonses which had not been increased in 16 years, this produced additional revenue to the county to support the salary increases negotiated

Aggressively recruit to fill sworn deputy positions (Accomplished)

• Advertised at the Arundel Mills Movie Theatre

• Advertised on WNST 1570 AM  talk radio

• Advertised on the Anne Arundel County website

• Developed/improved new Sheriff website

• Agency became fully staffed as of May 4, 2009

Assist the Anne Arundel County Police Sex Offender Registration Unit (Not accomplished)

• This goal was not attainable due to personnel/budget shortfalls in the county government

Increase training opportunities to broaden the knowledge, skills and abilities of my staff (Accomplished)

• Since taking office I have mandated that we utilize all possible in-house and outside professional training to promote the growth of supervisory and non-supervisory personnel

• Created, trained and equipped a new Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team to handle high risk incidents in the Circuit Courthouse

Provide state of the art equipment to the Sheriff’s Office (Accomplished)

• Built a new Communications Center equipped with new CAD radio system

• Armed sworn personnel with CTS Supersock bean bag shotgun firearms/ammo

• Armed sworn personnel with TASER less lethal weapons

• Equipped sworn personnel with Mobile Data Terminals for their vehicles

• Equipped the Security Bureau with a new flat screen assignment board for sworn/non-sworn personnel

• Created new office space for Security Bureau sergeants

• Created new locker room space for sheriff personnel

• Obtaining new detention center command and control electronic board    

Increase Staffing of the Warrant Teams

• (Not accomplished due to fiscal restraints within county/state governments)

Create Prisoner Transport Unit

• (Not accomplished due to fiscal restraints within the county/state governments)

2010 Campaign Platform

• Continue to reduce the number of outstanding warrants through aggressive warrant service techniques, employing creative warrant stings, and soliciting the input from citizens by posting the names of wanted individuals in the Capitol/Gazette Newspapers, and the Anne Arundel’s Most Wanted Cable Television Show.

• Continue to seek/obtain grant funding for overtime, equipment and a dispatcher position 

• Create a bill in the General assembly to remove the requirement for mailing eviction orders. This is a redundant practice since the occupant of the residence is hand delivered a notice of eviction by our office

• Create a bill to provide video appearances before court commissioners

• Conduct special warrant service initiatives aimed at dead-beat parents

• With the projected growth of the county population due to BRAC, increase the size of both the warrant teams and civil process teams

• Make our K-9 teams cross-trained in explosive detection and utility so they can work in tandem with warrant teams, civil process on difficult evictions and to assist other agencies

• Work jointly with the Anne Arundel County Police and the Anne Arundel County State’s Attorneys Office to conduct out of state extraditions for serious offenders

• Actively seek out and apprehend wanted gang members through arrest stings, sweeps and and daily search and apprehend missions