“Since my retirement from the U.S. Army in 1999, I have worked for law enforcement in Mason County. I have been a corrections officer/dispatcher, patrol officer with the Havana Police Department and detective and Chief Deputy with the Mason County Sheriff’s Office. I believe that my leadership background in the U.S. Army, my law enforcement training and experience, accompanied with the wisdom obtained by working with Sheriff Youell will clearly show that I am the best candidate for Sheriff.”–Paul Gann
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And so it goes...
Richard
Mason County Board appoints Gann to replace retiring Sheriff Youell
PDTimes, 14 Jan 2014
Paul Gann will sit down for lunch Friday as the chief deputy of the Mason County Sheriff's Office, but when he sits down for dinner later that day he will be the new sheriff in town.
Since 2002, when Sheriff Wayne Youell first took office, Gann has served as Youell's right-hand man, and when Youell officially steps down to retire from office at 4 p.m. Friday, Gann will take over for his former boss — much as Youell did when he took over after spending years as the chief deputy for longtime Sheriff Richard Walker. The Mason County Board unanimously approved the appointment at its regularly scheduled monthly meeting Tuesday in the county courthouse in Havana.
"Paul's going to do a great job," Youell said after the meeting. "I'll be a phone call away, but I don't think he's going to need it. He sat next door to me in the next room for years, and he's going to do an excellent job.
He's retired as a Green Beret and he brings structure into the office, and he's always a very structured individual. We've kind of grown together in the sheriff's office and it just seemed like he was the natural choice as the next sheriff. He does an excellent job."
Board Chairman James Griffin said that having served as the chief deputy for so long has given Gann the relevant experience needed to step into the sheriff's office's leadership role. He said he believes the department is in good hands.
Gann joined the department as a corrections officer in 1999, when he moved to Havana after 20 years in the Army — many of them spent in special forces. In 2001, he became a part-time officer for the Havana Police Department and a part-time deputy for the sheriff's office. In 2002 he became a detective for the sheriff's office and served in that capacity until the newly elected Youell asked him to take the open chief deputy position later that same year.
Gann said he intends to continue running the department using the same guiding principles that he and Youell have always used. Youell, in his time in office, has emphasized modern, specialized training, cost efficiency and adaptation to changing needs.
"It's been tremendous," Gann said of his time working under Youell. "I retired from the military so I had a lot of leadership experience working with soldiers in that capacity, but as far as law enforcement he's been a mentor professionally as well as personally."
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