St Paul Chief Harrington Intro

St Paul Chief Harrington introduces Matt Bostrom for Ramsey County Sheriff on December 8, saying I am honored and pleased to have been asked to introduced Matt Bostrom today. I have known Matt for the 27 years that he has been on the police department. He has an outstanding record of service. coming on in 1982 and rising to the ranks of the St Paul department Now my fondest memories of Matt though start actually when Matt was a DARE cop. I was a sergeant in Juvenile and Matt came in with the drive the passion, the focus and the talent to be a great teacher, to be a great coach and a great mentor. Matt has a passion for youth that never ever ends. When I moved up into the corner office of the St Paul PD, one of the first people that I thought of to be a part of my executive team was Matt Bostrom I brought him in as my chief of staff. The chief of staff of the St Paul department at that time was responsibly for being literately for being the moral compass for us because Matt is a man of character, he is a man of honor, he is man of integrity. And so I knew that I could trust him to guide me and my administration in doing the right thing when nobody one else was looking, I moved him to the chief of operations at critical time when the chief of operations went down with a heart attack and matt without fail without hesitation stepped into the biggest leadership role in our department it is running the 300-400 of the 600 cops that work in the city of St paul. And I saw with that appointment Matt Bostrom take on the job of leader, of administrator. I saw him take on the role of making community policing not just verbiage but a way of life. I saw him develop the beats. I saw him develop problem solving. I saw him help me develop the CARE project, which turned around crime on the east side. We moved him into chief of support services where his planning, his emergency background and another trait that I came to appreciate with him came to light, Matt is not just high touch, Matt is high tech as he ran my com center, our safe city initiative with all the downtown cameras and ran one of the largest budgets in the city. Matt is many things: he is an outstanding planner, he is a great administrator but most importantly, Matt is a leader. I know that leadership takes vision, that leadership takes drive and that leadership task commitment and I know that Matt Bostrom has all of those things. I know that leaders bring people together, and you only have look across this room, Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservative and all those in-between coming here together because we believe that new leadership is needed. It is with great pride that I want to introduce the next sheriff of Ramsey county, Matt Bostrom."

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