![]() ![]() “One person dying is one person too many for me.” “I need the community to stay vigilant and SCV youth need to be educated about the dangers of drugs,” he said. He is concerned the Santa Clarita could end 2019 with double the overdose deaths of last year. SCV recorded its ninth overdose death in 2019 during the first week of May. Compare that to 2017 where we had 6,” he said. “In 2018, we had 14 overdose deaths by the end of the year. Lewis said distracted driving, texting and using a cell phone while driving, adds to the problem.Īnother challenge Lewis has faced since becoming the SCV’s “top cop” is the increasing number of overdose deaths in the SCV. We are citing them, but we are not getting the community to understand that speeding and violating traffic laws to get themselves to where they are going quicker, doesn’t benefit anyone if it leads to an accident,” he said. ![]() “We are catching people going as fast as 107 miles an hour - 110 miles an hour. “We are trying to get people to slow down,” he said. ![]() Lewis said people speeding on roads throughout the SCV is an ongoing problem. Lewis lives in the SCV with his wife and three daughters.Ĭaptain Robert Lewis in a Community Relations planning meeting about upcoming event in late June at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station in Valencia. After he married, he bought a bigger house, to raise a family. In 1990, he moved up to a single-family home in Valencia. In 1989, he bought his first house, a townhome, in this valley. “Unfortunately, as it has grown and crimes of opportunity rise, we aren’t that kind of place anymore.”ĭespite all the changes in the SCV through the years, Lewis hasn’t found any place he would rather live. “The SCV used to be a place where you could leave your doors and windows unlocked at night and let the air in,” he said. Lewis said Santa Clarita is very different now compared to the 1960s when his family first moved to Saugus. “We have to be able to provide them with resources and other solutions,” he said. Lewis said deputies need effective tools to deal with individuals with mental illness, autism, Alzheimer’s and in other issues. He returned to Santa Clarita (2007-14) as a lieutenant where he served as watch commander and the service area lieutenantoverseeing crime prevention measures.ĭuring his last training bureau stint, he created “Crises Intervention Training.” The program teaches deputies how to work with individuals in crisis. “Both times I was assigned to academy staff, I was fortunate to be assigned close to home at College of the Canyons,” Lewis said. He returned to the training bureau as a drill instructor sergeant for the Sheriff’s academy at College of the Canyons. After three years, he returned to West Hollywood as a sergeant spending three years working on the Sunset Boulevard Policing Team and the Entertainment Policing Team. “I was fortunate to be able to come back to the SCV as the captain,” he said.Īfter seven years on patrol, Lewis was selected to become an instructor at the Sheriff’s training bureau. Lewis climbed the ranks from deputy to sergeant to lieutenant and now, captain. His career has taken him to nearly every nook and cranny of Los Angeles County including Malibu, West Hollywood, Altadena, Lost Hills, Crescenta Valley and always back to the Santa Clarita Valley. Captain Robert Lewis, left, in an afternoon briefing with Deputies at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station in Valencia. “I was here in the SCV during the 1994 earthquake,” he said. Lewis worked in Lost Hills, West Hollywood and the SCV. He was promoted to patrol where he stayed for seven years. “I knew in my heart this was the calling that God had for me,” he saidĪs is typical with most new graduates of the Sheriff’s Academy, Lewis spent 18 months working in the county jail. It didn’t take long for Lewis to know he was in exactly the right place. “I started as a CSO to get a general idea of what the job was about and to make sure it was a career that I knew in my heart I could handle,” Lewis said. In 1985 at age 19 ½, Lewis was assigned as a community service officer to the Santa Clarita Valley station. Lewis traveled throughout Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department during his career. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender. ![]()
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