Sheriff accepts role on governor’s new council

By Derek Jordan
WICK NEWS SERVICE
Published/Last Modified on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:47 PM MDT


SIERRA VISTA — Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever has joined the governor’s office in a new effort to stem the flow of human trafficking in the state.


The Anti-Human Trafficking Coordinating Council is Gov. Janet Napolitano’s response to what her office called a “piecemeal approach to immigration reform” by the U.S. government.

“She has been rattling the governments cage for a long time,” said Jeanine L’Ecuyer, press secretary for the Governor’s Office. “If you just try prosecution, you have a problem.”

Dever received an invitation to join the 23-member council Oct. 14.

“I agreed to do it,” Dever said, “because of the importance of human trafficking and the heinousness associated with it. There’s a growing enterprise of human trafficking that involves indigent servitude, prostitution and more. It very much equates to a form of slavery.”

These problems stem from the large debts people face when they agree to pay to be smuggled across the border. Most debts are never fully paid, he said.

Trafficking is less of a problem in Cochise County than other areas of the state, Dever said.

“We’re mostly a transportation-shipment zone. You don’t see the kind of open, on the street problems [here],” he said.

The first meeting for the council is scheduled for Nov. 12 in Phoenix.

 

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Comments

    Just wondering wrote on Oct 22, 2008 7:58 PM:

    " Is this paper so pro Dever that they have to run all of the articles about him two issues in a row? "

    Skeptical wrote on Oct 22, 2008 1:49 PM:

    " This was a generic invitation that went to all sheriff's, the DPS and major city police departments, it was not for Dever specifically but for a representative from the Sheriff's department.

    For some reason, maybe the upcoming election, the Sheriff upstaged the Governor in announcing this before she did.

    Strange though, since the Cochise County Sheriff's are not allowed to arrest people smugglers, illegal alien drug smugglers nor illegal aliens in possession of stolen vehicles. "

    Ragman wrote on Oct 22, 2008 10:25 AM:

    " This isn't a tribute to Sheriff Dever. All Border County Sheriff's have been invited because it would be inappropriate to not invite them. This sheriff has done very little to actively address the problem within the county. He has very little to show for 12 years in office. Hopefully his term is about up. "

    Better news wrote on Oct 22, 2008 8:27 AM:

    " We just saw this article in the weekend paper. Is the sheriff doing so poorly we have to have this twice? Besides, it does not reflect all the border county sheriff's were invited. "

    All sheriffs wrote on Oct 21, 2008 7:41 PM:

    " All the Border Sheriff's were iinvited to be on this committee.
    Why make it sound like he was picked special? border patrol did not endorse him in the primary and I doubt seriously if they will in the General. he has all calls inolving illegals transferred to Border Patrol. All you need do is a little research. "

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