Catoosa County, Ga., Sheriff Gary Sisk answers questions at a news conference Thursday at his offices near Ringgold, Ga.RINGGOLD, Ga. – Catoosa County Sheriff Gary Sisk maintains there’s nothing to investigate about his officers who admitted they let an apparently intoxicated FBI agent off and then drove him and his damaged car home.
But the news of FBI Special Agent Ken Hillman using his badge for favors was enough to prompt the newly elected sheriff to examine changing his own policy on how officers respond during traffic stops.
“I do not condone the actions of these officers, but it’s a policy issue,” Sisk said at a news conference Thursday. “We’re addressing that by looking at our policies to see what will be changed.”
Sisk, who said he consulted other law enforcement authorities before making a decision, said it’s too early to give specifics on how many policies he is examining and how he might change them.
The news conference at the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday came a week after Fort Oglethorpe Police Department Officer Greg Cross admitted to his boss, Chief David Eubanks, that when he was a sheriff’s deputy in 2009 he had pulled over Hillman. The agent appeared intoxicated, and the bumper on Hillman’s car was dragging nearly to the ground, Eubanks told the Chattanooga Times Free Press.