The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office started a sponsored Explorer Post that is chartered through the Florida Sheriff’s Explorer Association. The youth of Sumter County are a valuable resource and will grow up to be the leaders of our future. We feel that promoting interaction between the youth of Sumter County and law enforcement is important. The Explorer program will give our local law enforcement
an additional opportunity to make that connection with our youth and hopefully allow our youth to learn enough to consider a career in law enforcement. If you have a child between the ages of 14-21 interested in a future career in law enforcement, The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office is starting an Explorer Post. The Explorers will train for things like high-risk traffic stops, building searches, crimes scenes, and much more. Each year there is a competition where Explorers will compete with other Explorer Post in the state of Florida in the categories they have trained for. The Explorer Post will have a rank structure similar to the sheriff’s office with the kids having the opportunity to hold the rank of Captain, Lieutenant, and Sergeant. Meetings/trainings will be held once a week in the evenings. The sheriff’s office is now accepting applications that you can obtain from your school resource officer or at the sheriff’s office. Currently, we will be accepting approximately 12 kids into the program. Additional questions can be emailed to [email protected]. You can also contact Lieutenant Wynn who oversees the program, Deputy Eckstein who is the lead advisor, or any other advisor of the program which includes Deputy Hansen, Deputy Holloway, and Deputy Williams. Please note that this page is monitored by the Sumter County Sheriff's Office as such the following applies:
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