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Cochise County sheriff outlines national role, fatal crash probe and local public-safety priorities
Summary
On KWCD's First Watch, Cochise County Sheriff Mark Danos described his new federal advisory role, recounted national and local public-safety work, and said investigators are probing a fatal wrong‑way motorcycle crash that killed two people.
Sheriff Mark Danos of Cochise County told listeners on KWCD’s First Watch that he was appointed this week to the Homeland Security Advisory Council and will begin serving next week, and he described several local public‑safety matters including an active fatal crash investigation and efforts to sustain a county mental‑health first‑responder program.
The appointment, Danos said, was supported by his colleagues: “The 4 sheriff's associations — national, western, Southwest border, and major county — came together to discuss issues in public safety,” and “3,081 sheriffs actually voted to support me for that position,” he said on air. Danos said he will carry the “public safety optics” of local law enforcement to Washington.
Danos described a multiagency traffic fatality he said his office is investigating on State Route 90. “What I’m being told is this motorcycle was going the wrong way on 90, going northbound in the…
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