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Welcome to today's Let's Talk Newton.
I'm Randy Vannett.
Today we're joined by Jasper County Chief
Defty Dwayne Rosen-Dall, Dwayne is today.
And he was given the very first law enforcement
distinguished service award in Jasper County for his
year as a service with Jasper County.
And a long time Jasper County law enforcement official
who himself admits that he's in its
wildlife of his career.
And that's Chief Defty Dwayne Rosen-Dall.
Chief Defty Dwayne Rosen-Dall, we appreciate you
spending time with us today.
Well, thank you.
Can you tell us how you got this long, long
enforcement career started?
I started out.
I graduated from high school in 1983.
I attended I started working for the state of Iowa in 1984.
So when you're at a high school, I
started working to Capitol Police Division at that time, which
was a subdivision of the Iowa State Patrol or the
Department of Public Safety.
I worked there until 1987.
In 1987, I attended the Academy, the police academy,
done by the Iowa State Patrol, conducted by the Iowa
State Patrol.
And we graduated July of 1987.
1987 then I went back to the Capitol Police Division and
worked there.
I was a state peace officer at that time.
Work there one year as an officer and then one year as
a sergeant.
I was promoted to a sergeant to rank there.
And then in 1988, I got married.
And then in 1989, I transferred to the was now known as the
Iowa State Patrol from the Capitol Police Division.
Now it's all under one department.
I was assigned to Iowa City.
I worked in Iowa City for a lot of years.
Transferred.
I'm a hometown boy, Jasper County living this.
I was raised in the Sully area.
And then in 1981, I made a transfer from the east end of
post-11, which was based out of Cedar Rapids to the west end of
post-11, which is considered Powyshite County.
So I worked in Powyshite County for another nine years.
While I was in Powyshite County, I worked closely with
the Gernel Police Department, the Jasper County Sheriff's
Office.
And then in 2010, I hopped over the line and then I was assigned
to the post one office, which is based out of Des Moines.
And I worked, I was assigned Jasper County at that time.
And that's when I started working closely with the Newton Police
Department, the small towns, Monroe, Prairie City,
Colfax, Baxter at the time, and then with the Jasper County
Sheriff's Office as a trooper.
And then I was approached by John Halfordy
before he, while he was running his election process.
And then he asked me if I was ever considered being a chief
deputy.
And I laughed and I said, what did he do now?
What did he do?
I've been a trooper in my whole career, basically.
And so he told me, well, this is, we had several talks,
leading up to the election day.
And he said, if I win the election, I'll come back and see you.
So he won the election in 2012, fall of 2012.
And then so he took assignment in 2013 as the sheriff
of Jasper County.
And that left the seat open for the chief deputy.
And we shook hands out in the parking lot.
And I was then going to resign or retire and enough years
retire of 24 years with the state patrol.
And I stepped down and retired from there
and started my assignment here at the Jasper County
Sheriff's Office.
It was interesting.
The first three years, I always compare it
to drinking from the fire hose.
Because I knew nothing about, I knew law enforcement.
I knew how to talk to people.
I knew how to do accidents and write
a lot of tickets and do things like that with my career
up to that point.
But this is a little different.
I took on an administrative role as well as just the ins
and outs of the sheriff's office.
It's quite different dealing with the jail and the communications
and more so the people.
So you kind of oversee everything that goes on in this building.
I do.
I worked for Sheriff Howfordy for we did three terms.
I told him, I said, I need at least two terms.
I said, you got to have eight years
because I was looking at my state patrol retirement.
And he says, oh, yeah, we can do that, no problem.
And then the second year got towards the end.
And he's like, what do you think?
And I said, you got another year or another four years.
And I go, well, absolutely, I'm having a blast.
So I stuck around for another four.
So then now with the election of Sheriff Shuts,
he was kind enough to offer that me to stay here
at the Sheriff's Office.
And hold the seat of the chief deputy within the Sheriff's
Office.
So now I'm working into the next round.
You're next round.
Yes.
Yeah.
OK.
What got you into law enforcement to be in with?
What is it about the traction check?
I was raised on a farm.
I was on the oldest of three children.
And I worked hard.
I did my thing.
And I just decided my Sunday school teacher
happened to be a state trooper.
So when I was going to church in Sully, he would come down
and he would do class.
And before class, he would always tell us a trooper story.
Well, troopers have lots of stories.
As does any law enforcement officer.
So he was always, and I was intrigued by that.
And I went home and I told my folks one time.
I said, hey, I said, I'm kind of thinking about taking
a shot at this law enforcement thing and trooper.
And they were supportive of it.
And so I had conversations with him,
and he'd gotten me my first application.
I brought it to the high school one day during gym.
Somebody said, hey, there's a, hey, Rose, no.
I go, what?
I said, there's a trooper standing over
on the other side of the gym in full dress uniform.
And he's like, he looks at me and he points at me.
He says, come on over here.
And he hands me the application and he says, fill it out.
You're what we need.
I'm like, all right.
So I filled it out.
And in 1984, I was offered a position
with the State and with the Department of Public Safety.
And so it began.
And so it began.
And so the other rest is history, so to speak.
Yeah, sweet.
OK.
Your plans from here on out?
Any decisions?
I haven't.
No.
A lot of people ask me.
There's no deadline yet.
No deadline?
OK.
I'm still planning.
Not that we want you to leave or anything.
I just kind of wanted to ask you what's going on.
Well, thanks for spending some time with us today.
Thank you very much.
Wish you safe ventures out there for the rest of your career.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
I'm talking again to Jessica and Chief
Jeopardy, Dwayne Rosendoll.
On today's Let's Talk Newtons.
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