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Cochise County sheriff highlights interagency work, drone test program and human trafficking training
Summary
Sheriff Mark Danos hosted the state Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats and said Cochise County was selected for a federal drone test-and-evaluation partnership. He also described a free human-trafficking class and other cross-jurisdictional cooperation.
Sheriff Mark Danos said he recently chaired a meeting of the Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats (ACTT), a working group of federal, state and local law-enforcement leaders that meets to coordinate operations in Arizona.
“I hosted it here on Monday, and nice turnout,” Danos said. He described the group as including U.S. attorneys, the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, the DEA, Arizona Department of Public Safety and other federal partners, and said he currently serves as chair of the committee.
Danos also announced that Cochise County was chosen as a partner in a drone test-and-evaluation program that he said is costing the county nothing. “We were picked 3,000 plus sheriff’s offices, and we were picked to be the partner in this,” he said. Danos said the program is focused on combating criminal activity and that Arizona has a law allowing law-enforcement to disable drones involved in criminal acts; he described the drones used in the pilot as U.S.-made.
Separately, Danos described a human-trafficking training class for local law enforcement that covered signs, symptoms and how human trafficking differs from smuggling. He said the training is connected to a border-center grant that is free of charge and is networked nationally.
Danos framed the combined work as saving lives. “Everything we’re doing on this border is saving lives. It’s about saving lives and protecting people,” he said, and added the county’s partnership with federal and state agencies helps bring resources and operational coordination to local investigations.
The sheriff’s office did not release technical specifications of the drone program during the broadcast and did not provide statutory citations for the referenced Arizona law.
