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Show Former deputy to run f ' " v ' ' ' V ' I honors, Harris served in that department with distinction, and was nominated for the department's medal of valor for his actions in saving the life of an intended suicide victim who was attempting to jump from a fifth story ledge. He later became the least senior officer on the department to ever be advanced to the promotional list for sergeant. Harris has served as Chief of Police in Parowan and then became a Deputy Sheriff of Iron County. He represented Iron County in the 1977 State Peace Officers Convention and pre-convention firearms competition, bringing back two individual trophies and one team trophy along with fellow deputy Gordon Adams. Harris is a certified peace officer, having completed the Utah Police Academy equivalency examination. He is also certified as a juvenile specialist, breathalyzer operator, and has received advanced training in the fields of traffic accident investigation, in-vestigation, burglary investigation, and in the fields of investigating homicide, child abuse, and white collar crime. In announcing his platform and goals, Harris related there is much discontent in the county with the way the sheriff's office is run. Too many times he told the commissioners, residents call for service and never get any response, and many residents along the valley roads feel that their roads are becoming speedways. The people of Iron County are paying for quality law enforcement services, but quite frankly they are not getting what they have paid for out of the Sheriff, he stated. "Although I will seek the Republican Party's nomination," Harris added, "I will attempt to eliminate the excessive amount of unnecessary backslapping and handshaking politics that has existed in the past. I will run the sheriff's office like a business instead of like a part time job." Harris stated that he expects to draw his support from all over the county, and to run especially strong in the Cedar City and Parowan areas. By using his experience in the local sheriff's office, Harris said he knows the efficiency and follow-up problems in the department can be improved. Harris said he is announcing his intentions to run early so he can "Pursue the office with a great amount of enthusiasm." DANHAimiS Former Deputy Sheriff Dan Harris has announced his candidacy for the office of Iron County Sheriff in the 1978 elections at the County commission com-mission meeting Wednesday evening. Harris, who served as Deputy Sheriff from 1976 to 1977, stated he has been urged to seek the office by several leading citizens of Iron County, including a number of present and former elected officials. He said he also has statements of encouragement and support from a number of local, county and state peace officers, citing a need to improve im-prove the quality of services rendered by the Sheriff, "and eliminate the excessive amount of politics and favoritism now incorporated in the administration of justice in Iron County." Harris has been a resident of Iron County for 13 years, having lived both in Cedar City and Parowan. He is married to the former Andrea Adams of Parowan, and the couple have three children. Harris has attended Utah State University, Southern Utah State College, and Phoenix (Arizona) College, where he majored in Police Personnel Management and Public Administration, and maintained a 4.0 (A) average and was on the Dean's Honor Roll. He filled a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Texas, Dallas, Spanish Mission, where he served as a district and zone leader. He is now serving as a ward mission leader and Seventies quorum president. Graduating from the Phoenix Police Academy with High academic |
