Stoebe sworn in as Lakeport Police’s new lieutenant
- Elizabeth Larson
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – A Lakeport Police Department veteran was sworn in on Thursday as the agency’s new second in command.
Dale Stoebe took the oath as the department’s new lieutenant from Chief Brad Rasmussen in a Thursday evening ceremony in the city council chambers at Lakeport City Hall.
“Dale will be an asset to and enhance the administration of the police department as well as the city and we welcome him to his new position,” Rasmussen said Thursday.
Stoebe’s appointment as lieutenant went into effect on Monday.
The department’s longtime lieutenant, Jason Ferguson, left in July to take the police chief’s job in Cloverdale, as Lake County News has reported.
Since Ferguson’s departure for Cloverdale, Gerardo Gonzalez, the retired Willits Police chief who also works for the Lakeport Police Department as a reserve police officer, has been filling the lieutenant’s job on an interim basis.
Rasmussen told Lake County News that Stoebe has nearly 29 years of law enforcement experience with the Lakeport Police Department.
Stoebe joined the agency in December of 1990 as a reserve officer, serving in that capacity until being hired as a police officer in March of 1993.
During his tenure as a police officer, Rasmussen said Stoebe has served in patrol and acted as a school resource officer for the Lakeport Unified School District.
Stoebe went on to serve eight years as a sergeant and 10 years as a detective, Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen said that, as an investigator and detective, Stoebe has been assigned to investigate complex narcotic cases as part of the former Lake County Interagency Narcotic Task Force.
Stoebe also investigated the majority of the most complex crimes that have occurred in the city, including sex crimes, financial crimes, computer crimes, burglaries, serious assaults and homicide, Rasmussen said.
Stoebe has amassed more than 3,000 hours of advanced officer training certified through the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST, and hundreds more hours in other non-POST training in all areas of law enforcement and investigations, according to Rasmussen.
Other Lakeport Police officers have credited Stoebe with being an important mentor to them in their law enforcement careers.
Rasmussen said that in his new position, Lt. Stoebe will run the operations section of the department and manage several of its programs, as well as provide leadership to officers and supervisors for the agency, which has 13 sworn personnel.
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