 Crow Wing County Sheriff's Todd Doll is retiring this year and the race to take his place is now on. The election consists of three candidates who are campaigning to make it past the August 14th primary. Reporter Rachel Johnson has more. Eric Kling, Scott Goddard and Pat Picard are going head-to-head in a race to be the next Sheriff of Crow Wing County. Scott Goddard is running for the position after 20-plus years of serving. I started with the Breezy Point Police Department shortly thereafter went to the Sheriff's Office, short stint back at Breezy Point and then back to the Sheriff's Office. Pat Picard is a Brainerd High School graduate who went on to join the military in the Minnesota Army National Guard before joining the police force. I've been with the Sheriff's Office for over 20 years, 22 total years of law enforcement. I've worked for the Crosby Police Department and I also currently work for the Pequot Lakes Police Department and Cayuna Police Department where I'm the Deputy Chief. Eric Kling is running for his old position. He previously served as Sheriff of Crow Wing County from 2003 to 2007. You know I'm the Police Chief up in Pequot Lakes right now and I've helped that department become a better department and now I want to go back to the Sheriff's Office. The candidates will be narrowed down to two on the August 14th primary and then voted on in the general election November 6th. All candidates have many years of experience and have similar goals for the office but their focus is very. It's just not about a sheriff being a big public figure. Let's try to get our whole team at the Sheriff's Office engaged and inspired to serve. You know we're very fortunate and to have the relationships that we have with our community right now and we have to really make sure we're trying to strengthen those relate relationships within our community. It's one of the things that the Sheriff's Office doesn't do very well is that community policing piece. They take a call up in Jenkins and then run all the way down to Garrison so they can't build relationships with people and that's one of the things I want to make sure that we're doing is building relationships with people so that they trust us. People don't care what you know until they know that you care. My focus as a sheriff of Crowing County is continue our collaboration that we have with all of our entities. Social services, our courts, our health department, really trying to drive home the point that this is not just a one-person show or a one department show. Though the race has been tight we will have to wait until the August 14th primary to see who will make it on the ballot November 6th. Reporting from Brainerd, Rachel Johnson, Lakeland News. You can vote by mail or in person through of the August 13th for the primary. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.