(Lander, WY) – Sheriff Ryan Lee gave a quarterly report to the Fremont County Commission this week, reviewing current inmate totals, dispatch center call loads, and the continued success of the county’s new K-9 units.
The drug detection dogs have been “hitting the streets hard” and “doing an excellent job,” Lee said, anticipating a statistical report later this month on “the work that those two K-9s have been doing and the poundage they’ve been picking up.”
One of the animals also helped apprehend the inmate who escaped from the Wyoming Honor Farm last month, Lee noted.
“That K-9 was able to safely extract this person without anybody getting injured – including any law enforcement officers or the suspect himself,” he said.
Commissioner Ron Fabrizius, who had the opportunity to meet the dogs recently and “see how they work,” said he was impressed by the K-9 units.
“That’s money well spent,” he said. “(They’ve) saved lives already. It’s amazing. … I think that’s a good program.”
Lee said Lt. Kevin Rieman would bring the dogs in for a “short demonstration of their abilities” later this month.
Statistics
As of Monday, Lee said there were 139 prisoners housed at the Fremont County Detention Center, including 87 men, 47 women, and five juveniles.
Thirty-four of the inmates – 21 men and 13 women – have already been sentenced, he added.
Over the past 93 days, 786 people have come through the detention center, Lee said, including 402 from the Riverton Police Department, 231 from the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, 111 from the Lander Police Department, 20 from the Wyoming Highway Patrol, 12 federals holds, nine from the Shoshoni Police Department, and one from the Dubois Police Department.
Since May 4, Lee said the Fremont County Dispatch Center has received 4,524 emergency calls and has dispatched 3,587 law enforcement calls, 287 ambulance calls, and 438 fire calls.
As of Monday, FCSO Enforcement Divisions have received 4,345 calls for service for the year, he said, and FCSO Search and Rescue Divisions have only been called out to one mission so far this fiscal year – up from six at the same time last fiscal year.