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Source: The Lima News, OhioOct.迷利倉 05--LIMA -- Since taking over as Allen County's sheriff in 2009, Sam Crish said he's really had to find ways to manage the agency's budget.He took over in the middle of the Great Recession and cuts were hitting county government hard. Crish had some hard decisions to make -- including laying off eight full-time and four part-time employees -- but the last thing he wanted was it affecting service to citizens. Crish decided to reorganize the agency with fewer people in administrative roles."What I wanted to do was reorganize the sheriff's office and ultimately put more deputies on the road," he said, "to work on problems in the community."Crish spoke Friday to the Allen County Republican Party at its monthly luncheon updating Republicans on his agency.One area Crish really wants to improve is community relations. He said a lot of people don't trust deputies and police officers, and that needs to change so citizens work better with officers to solve problems."Some of these parents that we deal with, I think they teach their children that we are the enemy," Crish said.Crish said that changes by building trust with people. He also realizes it won't happen overnight.Crish also moved to put the local drug task force under one roof with the Lima Police Department. A full-time prosecutor was assigned to the task force, as well. The city police department and sheriff's tactical team combine for about 100 drug raids a year, he said."You would be amazed. If you ask people where the raids are, they will say the city of Lima, but they are not. They are throughout the entire county," Crish said.Drugs, by far, remain the big problem, whic自存倉 Crish estimated 90 percent of all inmates in the jail are connected to drugs that include numerous other crimes to feed the habit, he said."That's why the theft goes up. That's why the burglaries go up," he said.Crish also must deal with crime changing. As an example, he said the world's oldest profession has turned to the Internet. It's now the way to order a prostitute now, not the street corner.On top of that, heroin is making a comeback and nearly all the women deputies arrest for prostitution are on heroin, he said."That's why they're doing it," he said.Many of the men seeking prostitutes are coming from outside of Lima, he said."They are coming into this community and they are flooding the hotels," he said. "You just go on the Internet and you order it up."The agency's budget stayed hovered around $8.1 million, he said.Crish also had to make sure the agency had enough correctional officers in the jail especially as new state policies pushed more inmates into county jails away from state prisons. Inmate numbers have soared to near 300 daily, he said.He updated the communications dispatch center and the county took over dispatching for eight other agencies in the county, Crish said.Crish also is embracing technology such as in a new digital fingerprint reader but cautions it's not like television programs that scan a fingerprint and up comes a person's picture and history on a screen.Crish said he enjoys the job even though there are great challenges."Hopefully, I will be here for a long time," he said.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Lima News (Lima, Ohio) Visit The Lima News (Lima, Ohio) at .limaohio.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage