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Four candidates are on the Republican ballot for Crawford County sheriff. Watch video above for more information!Daniel Perry, Wayne Sandusky, James Mirus and Shannon Gregory are all hoping to be the next Crawford County sheriff.Each candidate has law enforcement experience and each candidate told 40/29 News that getting better pay and benefits for county deputies would be their top priority if elected to office.Daniel Perry is currently a captain with the Van Buren Police Department. He is also a justice of the peace."We want to make it a place where a deputy wants to stay and make his career there," Perry said. "I think the training of the deputies, the retention of deputies, is probably the most important. That should be the most important part. The deputy who is out there on the road, that they have the best training available to protect them and be able to go home with their families at night."Wayne Sandusky works part-time as a Cedarville police officer and works full-time as a construction manager."I'm definitely not doing it for the money and I'm not doing it for the retirement. I'm doing it for the citizens of Crawford County and to make the sheriff's office a better agency," he said. They're very short-handed. It's hard to keep deputies with the pay these guys have. It's not a good environment, easy environment to work in. And at times when I work at Cedarville, I see where there's only one deputy working. This not only threatens the deputies, it threatens the citizens."James Mirus is the chief deputy for the sheriffs department."I'm going to make sure that we get more deputies on the street, which provides better protection for the citizens. If you give back to your employees, they're going to provide a better service to our county, he said. In 2022 we took money from our own budget to give our employees a raise. The county came back and gave us another dollar raise on top of that, so the county deputies alone have gotten over a $4,000 raise in the last six months. I have the know-how from the inside with the visions of criminal investigations, with patrol, with the jail, which is one of the most important things a sheriff can do is control the jail."Shannon Gregory is currently the police chief for the town of Mulberry."It starts at the top. I'm not going to ask my people to do anything that I'm not willing to do or I have not done, he said. We want to be completely transparent. If the people want to talk to the sheriff, they can come in and talk to the sheriff. I believe that with the proper teamwork we can get the benefits up or we can keep people. With retention comes more people on the street, a safer community and more effective patrols."All of the candidates also told 40/29 News that equipping deputies with police body cameras would be something they would enact if elected as sheriff. The Crawford County Sheriffs Department is one of the few agencies in the River Valley that does not have body cameras or dash cameras inside patrol vehicles.Current Sheriff Jim Damante can not seek election since he was appointed to fulfill the remaining term of former Sheriff Ron Brown, who retired from office.Since there are no Democrat candidates seeking the sheriffs position, the race could be decided during the Republican primary election on Tuesday. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, a runoff election will be held in June.

Four candidates are on the Republican ballot for Crawford County sheriff. Watch video above for more information!

Daniel Perry, Wayne Sandusky, James Mirus and Shannon Gregory are all hoping to be the next Crawford County sheriff.

Each candidate has law enforcement experience and each candidate told 40/29 News that getting better pay and benefits for county deputies would be their top priority if elected to office.

Daniel Perry is currently a captain with the Van Buren Police Department. He is also a justice of the peace.

"We want to make it a place where a deputy wants to stay and make his career there," Perry said. "I think the training of the deputies, the retention of deputies, is probably the most important. That should be the most important part. The deputy who is out there on the road, that they have the best training available to protect them and be able to go home with their families at night."

Wayne Sandusky works part-time as a Cedarville police officer and works full-time as a construction manager.

"I'm definitely not doing it for the money and I'm not doing it for the retirement. I'm doing it for the citizens of Crawford County and to make the sheriff's office a better agency," he said. They're very short-handed. It's hard to keep deputies with the pay these guys have. It's not a good environment, easy environment to work in. And at times when I work at Cedarville, I see where there's only one deputy working. This not only threatens the deputies, it threatens the citizens."

James Mirus is the chief deputy for the sheriffs department.

"I'm going to make sure that we get more deputies on the street, which provides better protection for the citizens. If you give back to your employees, they're going to provide a better service to our county, he said. In 2022 we took money from our own budget to give our employees a raise. The county came back and gave us another dollar raise on top of that, so the county deputies alone have gotten over a $4,000 raise in the last six months. I have the know-how from the inside with the visions of criminal investigations, with patrol, with the jail, which is one of the most important things a sheriff can do is control the jail."

Shannon Gregory is currently the police chief for the town of Mulberry.

"It starts at the top. I'm not going to ask my people to do anything that I'm not willing to do or I have not done, he said. We want to be completely transparent. If the people want to talk to the sheriff, they can come in and talk to the sheriff. I believe that with the proper teamwork we can get the benefits up or we can keep people. With retention comes more people on the street, a safer community and more effective patrols."

All of the candidates also told 40/29 News that equipping deputies with police body cameras would be something they would enact if elected as sheriff. The Crawford County Sheriffs Department is one of the few agencies in the River Valley that does not have body cameras or dash cameras inside patrol vehicles.

Current Sheriff Jim Damante can not seek election since he was appointed to fulfill the remaining term of former Sheriff Ron Brown, who retired from office.

Since there are no Democrat candidates seeking the sheriffs position, the race could be decided during the Republican primary election on Tuesday. If no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, a runoff election will be held in June.

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