Arpaio to committee: Posse volunteers won’t go to the border

Wednesday, Sept. 28
By Bastien Inzaurralde
Cronkite News


Sheriff's posse units:
• Communication
• Community service
• Desert Search Unit
• Enforcement Support
• Jeep
• Maricopa K-9
• Medical rescue
• Mountain rescue
• North Valley
• Queen Creek Mounted
• Sar-Comm
• Sun City
• Sun City West

PHOENIX – Nearly 3,500 volunteers in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s posse help arrest illegal immigrants and fight other crimes, but don’t expect them to patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border, Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Wednesday.

As Arpaio addressed the Joint Border Security Advisory Committee, made up of lawmakers, sheriffs and state officials, Sen. Steve Smith, R-Maricopa asked whether and how the posse could be used at the border.

Arpaio responded that the border is beyond his area of responsibility.

“I think that’s something you should talk to the local sheriffs about,â€