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A missing family has been located in a remote canyon and returned home after their vehicle was discovered abandoned.

On 4/15/2012 a PCSO deputy on patrol near the junction of Redington and River Roads located a vacant maroon 2000 Saturn sedan on the shoulder of the road. A check of the vehicle showed it was registered to a 34‐year‐old female from San Manuel, but the license plate was suspended. Because the vehicle was partially protruding the roadway, the deputy called to have the car towed.

Each year between 140 and 160 Peace Officers are killed serving in the line of duty in the Untied States and their families are left to pick up the pieces. Since 1962, our Nation has celebrated the lives of these fine men and women, each year, during National Police Week.

During the month of May, across the nation, state and local governments recognize the sacrifices these men and women have made during their annual Peace Officer Memorial Services.

We’re just four months into 2012 and requests for the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office Regional SWAT team to respond to high risk incidents county‐wide continue rolling in.

A Florence man who had been reported missing has been rescued from an irrigation canal.  On 4/3/2012, PCSO deputies were called to a home located in the 15000 block of North Sweetwater Road after the home owner called to report her 34‐year‐old son was missing.

They are always heard but rarely seen, but these professionals are public safety’s true “first responders.” Public Safety Telecommunicators, or dispatchers as they are commonly named, play a critical role in the delivery of effective and efficient emergency services throughout the country. In 1991, Congress proclaimed a national week of recognition for telecommunicators across the United States. Since then, the second week of April, each year, is dedicated to recognizing telecommunicators for the work these fine men and women do. This year the dates are April 8th through the 14th.

A member of the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office has been accepted into the expert program with the Arizona Peace Officers standard and Training Board (AZ POST).

Sergeant Chris Lapre was selected to begin the process of becoming a Subject Matter Expert (SME) with the AZ POST Firearms Division this summer.

FLORENCE, Ariz. –  When Sylvia Shafer joined the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office as a patrol deputy in May of 1980, there were almost as many horses and cattle in Pinal County as there were people.

“It was vast, wide open spaces,” Shafer recalled, “Very agriculture.”

After working with PCSO for over a year, a job for a police officer opened up in a nearby city which she applied for and was accepted, but Shafer quickly learned bigger didn’t mean better.

“I missed the people, the rural lifestyle,” Shafer said.

In compliance with PCSO policy to alert members of the public when a registered sex offender moves into the county, or changes address - here are the latest (3) updates.