From the Harford County Sheriff’s Office:
Sheriff L. Jesse Bane announced tonight at the Harford County Council Meeting that he had appointed Charles Moore to lead the Harford County Detention Center as its new warden beginning August 1, 2014.
The Sheriff shared his challenge in selecting the appropriate candidate, talking about the changing population of citizens at the Harford County Detention Center. “You have heard me say on many occasions that the jail is no longer just a jail. It is a shelter for the homeless, a mental institution, a drug treatment center, and a hospital for the treatment of a variety of physical illnesses and disabilities.” He continued by expressing the skills a warden must possess, all skills that are realized in Moore. “We need a leader with background, skills, vision, and expertise to move the Detention Center forward. We need a warden with an IT background who is familiar with the technologies that exist to move the Detention Center forward. We need a proven leader in the criminal justice arena who knows how to address morale and staffing issues to move the Detention Center forward. And, a visionary who can see the future we must take in corrections beyond the warehousing of prisoners so that we can ease the burden and the cost of corrections on the Harford County taxpayer.”
Moore is currently serving the citizens of the State of Maryland as a Captain with the Maryland State Police, a career he began in 1988. Rising through the ranks, to his current assignment of the Executive Officer of the Support Services Bureau/Police Communications Support Division, he has worked in all areas of the state from Centerville and Waterloo to Bel Air and Westminster.
While the Commander of the Bel Air Barrack, his use of leadership skills to motivate and inspire personnel to achieve great success and increase productivity, as well as build successful community partnerships, was awarded. In addition, Moore mentors the next generation of public safety minds as an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at Cecil Community College.
Of his appointment, Moore states, “I am both humbled and honored to be selected by Sheriff Bane as the Warden for the Harford County Detention Center. I’m retiring from one great Department and beginning employment with another great agency led by a Sheriff, that I’ve had tremendous respect for my entire career. It is going to be very rewarding to focus all of my energy and skills to ensure that the Harford County Detention Center continues to remain a safe place to work and to be incarcerated. Just as in any new assignment during my career, I will thoroughly review the operational structure and ensure that refinements will be instituted, if needed. Again, it will be a tremendous honor to directly serve the citizens of Harford County, where I was born and raised and several generations of my family were born and raised.”
Moore holds both Bachelors and Masters degrees in Leadership and Management from Johns Hopkins University. He has received numerous awards during his career including the Troop Commander’s Award for the work he did at the Bel Air Barrack in 2010.
The Harford County Detention Center, operated by the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, houses an average of 400 individuals daily, employees 165 individuals, both sworn and civilians, and operates with an annual budget of nearly $16 million. Recently, the Detention Center received a Recognition of Achievement Award and a 100 percent score from the Maryland Commission on Correctional Standards, for compliance with all corrections standards, distinction they have held for the past two consecutive years.
Everyone knew this was coming. One more person to be fired when Gahler takes over in December.
HA HA HA, Gahler has a better chance of becoming Miss America, than becoming the Sheriff
Another purely political move. I do personally have a lot of respect for Chuck. Someone in Lionel Bane’s campaign staff is very smart and is building a dream team. Gahler still has a good chance, I hope!
Off topic news of the day, Eric Cantor, Rep from Virginia lost to another Tea Bagger. The Tea Party is unable to break the Democrat strongholds so instead they are beginning to eat their own! Love it!
Keep eating Tea Baggers (we love watching you nuts implode!) 🙂
Tea Party Patriots didn’t contribute one cent to Dave Brats campaign.
Brat ran on small government, fiscal and personal responsibility………. concepts lost on a moron like you.
Cantor spent over $150K on steak dinners alone while Brat went door to door and spend less than $120K
on his entire campaign.
Cantor made a huge assumption that he was a “shoe-in” and turned his back on the very people who elected him.
That is why he lost.
That’s shoo-in, Chief.,
cantor was a rino
basically a democrap politician
Moore was not liked by his troopers and will be less liked by the employees at the detention center. Bane thinks he made a smart political move, but the joke will be on him when Moore cost him the election.
Bane is so scared of this election he is trying to counter Gahler being a trooper by hiring a trooper. I know alot of the troopers at D and most all have nothing good to say about Moore and most have signs in their yards for Gahler. My guess is that Moore will be the shortest term employee ever.
All I know for sure is Moore has no experience at all in corrections! After having no Warden for. 3 years the Detention Center is in a shambles as far as staffing and moral. This is just another ploy by Bane to try and fool the public into another 4 years!
The union is the reason that Bane is the sheriff. The union is the reason that Bane will most likely beat John Ryan in the general election. The union will defeat Gahler in the primary. The union can not take a chance that the Gahler Waltet ticket wins the Sheriffs Office.
This Moore is off to a great start. He wants to make sure the jail remains a safe place to be incarcerated?!?! Did he know even know about the number of deaths there or his he just making stupid statements? Don’t unpack Mr. Moore.
You can bet he knows, but decides to start his new job misleading the public. Maybe it is a job requirement to work for Bane you have to be a person of no integrity.
Good for the Sheriff!!! The HCDC has not had a Warden in a year/half. Great News!!!
You think the Detention Center has been without a Warden for only a year and a half. Who was the last warden appointed at the DC? The last one I know of was Dehaven, and that is over 3 or 4 years ago.
Hey everyone; Just FYI- Please read the previous article comments about the Sheriff`s election for about the past year or so.
Here`s a little insight. Code Names: “On Point” is Gahler and “Mike (Michael) Welsh” is one of his committee members. They`ve probably changed their screen names by now. Just read what they said.
Ok Mrs. Bane
Clear,
I think you are correct. Don’t leave Bodway out.
Bottom Line…Bane made two great choices. Both Eddie Hopkins and Chuck Moore are stand up guys. Both are good managers who will do great jobs. Gahler could have had Chuck Moore in his camp as his second (which was the original plan) but he was bullied and directed not to do so by Howard Walter. Howard thought his wife would be a better fit for number two. That decision cost Gahler the election the first time. Yea, yea Gahler publicly said “reluctantly” that the Walter’s were not join to be in the equation this time. Don’t be too sure about that statement. Howard Walter is more controlling than that guy on the show “The Following”. There was time when Gahler was considered a good cop but now many fear that he is a disciple of Howard.
So you believe all it takes to be the Warden at the Detention Center is to be a stand up guy? Hell, 75% of the people in Harford County would be qualified if that were the qualification necessary to be the Warden.
Your comments are ludicrous!
Sorry Shadow, but I was there and have watched the video. There was nothing reluctant in Gahler’s statement concerning the Walters. There was nothing reluctant in Gahler’s whole talk to our group. And why do you put in quotes? He never said that but you want to give the impression he did.
“Reluctantly” is the only way to describe Gahler’s refusal to answer one simple question asked repeatedly by many, many people for several years. Lack of clarity and transparency cost him the last election. Hopefully, he will stand by his statements made at the Union meeting and prove that he is capable of being a leader and not a puppet. As any good policer officer knows the only true thing you have going for you is your word. If he gets elected I pray he will remember that and be a good leader who can not be bullied.
“As any good police officer knows the only true thing you have going for you is your word.”
Shadow,
I agree with that statement. It applies to all police officers. It applies to Jesse Bane. It is exactly why he should never be re-elected. This man does not keep his word, and he will tell you something he knows to be untrue just to appease you. Jesse Bane is the exact opposite of a good police officer.
Not a fan of this Sheriff but Chuck Moore is an outstanding officer who himself should run for higher office. Gahler is a political hack wannabe much like Banes.
Gahler is a big cry baby.
I suspect that Eddie or Chuck will eventually be groomed for a run for Sheriff in 2018. Both will be good candidates and won’t come with the baggage of the Walters. Most of us on the job don’t care much for Howard’s management style.
I’m still holding out hope for Jack Meckley. He looks out for us and is a stand up guy. He is no politician like the crew running today.
Jack has his favorites. He is too close to a hand picked group of young deputies. He has changed a lot, and will do things to advance his own career.
You folks are right about Jack…. he should thank a certain somebody who stuck their own neck out for him many years ago…when jack first started. Ask Big Gerry about him as well…….
Jack is too arrogant and only looks out for himself. If you ain’t law enforcement…..he has no time for you. Wonder how he goes from running against bane to being one that keeps getting promoted. Try having a conversation with him and you will see how self centered he is. So you keep holding out.
You folks are right on with regards to Jack. He is lucky that some certain someone put his neck out to save Jacks career, when he first started. As Gerry M Sr about him….
Another great choice made by Sheriff Bane. Some posters on here will just find a reason to complain matter who Jesse picked for the position. I wonder what DFC Eaton thinks about this? It’s a miracle that he hasn’t posted on this article yet.
Sorry, can’t go along with this one. Eddie was a good pick, this guy knows nothing about corrections and Jesse said that he would pick someone with extensive corrections experience. This will work against him. Sheriff Bane is a great politician but sometimes you cross a bridge too far. The troopers who know Moore have already begun to talk to the other citizens they know about this appointment. Moore is a well qualified law enforcement officer, but corrections is a different ball game that Moore know nothing about.
Sounds like Jesse is trying to bolster his chances at election time. The detention center has been without a warden this long, a sudden appointment of one seems suspect. Jesse needs to quit being a jerk with the citizens of Harford county, and quit bullying his command staff. Some things never change huh Major Bane???
What does a retired law enforcement officer have to know about corrections. When is this county going to wake up and take the detention center seriously and stop putting people in charge who have no clue how to run a jail. They may have the credentials to run a barrack, but how many people know what needs to be done when dealing with inmates. It’s like this position has been empty for a long time and they put an ex trooper in charge. It’s going to be interesting how the Bane for Sheriff spins having a retired trooper in charge of the jail and how he claims that problems are being solved at the jail.
Lets see the first time this guy has an inmate tell him No or uses some other colorful language. I’m sure he will be just like the warden in Shaw Shank Redemption. Must be election time.
Jesse conducted a search for a Warden sometime ago and had some very qualified candidates with corrections experience that he chose to ignore and NOW he picks a State Police Captain as a person with extensive experience in corrections……..really. How can a Captain from the Md. State Police even begin to have any credibility with the professional corrections staff at the HCDC let alone have any knowledge on how to correctional issues???
Mr. Moore will have the same level of credibility with the correctional staff that Bane does….. zero! Bane has repeatedly misled the public about the Warden position at the HCDC. Just go back and read the press releases that he and Eddie Hopkins have released to the Aegis, Dagger etc., on how Bane was going to deal with the vacant Warden position.
Bottom line is: You can’t believe anything Bane says anymore, and Hopkins is falling into that same mold.
Bane is a lying ungrateful hypocrite the unions supported him over the past to elections to the tune of approx. $50.000.00 and countless hours on poll workers ! To thank us he spent $100,000,000.00 in capital projects ie the building in Edgewood the New wing at the Detention Center and the expences associated with the new aviation unit. We have not had a cost of living raise during this time and our health insurance has gone up each year. Deputies are taking home less now than they were in the first year of Banes administration! Needless to say we wool not be supporting Bane and hope that the next Sheriff appreciates the employees better than this one has!!
So basically pay off the sheriff by dumping money into his campaign fund in with the promise of getting higher salaries and benefits at the hands of tax payers.
No wonder we hate unions so much.
I guess bribery isn’t a crime is the unions, police and teachers are fine with it.
Pathetic.
Slow Down Union Member, you are getting yourself worked up. I find it interesting that you think that Gahler would have done any better. You are just letting off steam that is not producing anything. Take your time and analyze what you wrote.
Really? You think replacing the old Southern precinct was a bad idea? That place was an embarrassment to work out of and completely inadequate to meet the needs of the deputies working out it. It didn’t even have a single holding cell and it was impossible to move around inside without tripping over a table, chair, or another deputy (and sometimes all three at once), and so little parking that on roll call days, half the shift was parking across the street in the shopping or at the bank.
There are plenty of bad decisions and failures of leadership from Bane over the past few years without making stuff up and trying to spin building a new precinct as a bad idea.
The new Southern was a great idea…of Sheriff Golding.
All this Gahler talk is premature mental maturbation. John Ryan is winning the primary.
Relax Chef Tell. They are already voting. Let’s see who wins and push that person to take out Bane!
One of you needs to tell your hero Gahler about the American flag. Last Friday in the heavy rain there was some nimrod in a pick-up truck with a huge Gahler sign and 3 flags getting totally soaked. One of those flags was our country’s. Gahler needs to tell his supporters about flag etiquette. As one who cares, that pissed me off.
What else would you expect from an ignorant politician? Jesse Bane treats the flag and his office with respect.
That same day the US Flag was also flying outside the HQ HCSO, and the Detention Center. Since when can’t the US Flag get wet?
Since always, jackass. Do you not know the regulations for flying the flag appropriately? If the flag was flying in the rain at Hdqtrs. than that is wrong also. I didn’t see that,
Reelect, Bane show respect. When one of you own goes down in the line of duty you put on a uniform and you hold a press conference. You don’t go on tv with a ball cap and look like you were doing yard work when you got the call. Bane does not respect his office. He has destroyed the morale and name of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office. He is a weak little man who is only out for himself and those minions willing to do his dirty work. Next time you see old Jesse ask him why he allows a Sgt in the Warrant section to get paid two hours overtime every day and this has been going on for years? Come in at six AM and then from two to four PM you get two hours overtime a day per pay period at a Sgt rank. I want to see how he justifies this one. I wonder if the new warden will continue to allow a Capt from the jail to drive Major IA 28 around all day long? Bane probably gets confused at the McDonalds drive up window by the big menu. Chuck, I’ve know you since 1988 and you are a good friend. Be your own man and don’t let Bane give you a bad name. You have ethics and are a good man, don’t throw this away for a man like Jesse Bane.
@Amervet
The flags were all weather flags. Thank you for your service, but it is you who is the Jackass. Most flags made today are all weather flags and getting them wet is no big deal or is it inappropriate to fly them in bad weather. The ones that are not are the ceremonial flags.
To allow the American flag to be carried on the back of a pick-up truck in a major downpour is wrong. Justify it any way you wish, but it is disrespectful…..and you are still a jackass.
Since bane has picked a retired law enforcement for corrections. I think it’s time to pick a retired corrections to work as one of the sheriff’s top aide. Why does corrections keep getting the short end of the stick. Sure, lets put someone in the office, who has ZERO experience working in corrections. I am sure he will be referring to his employees as second class citizens because the thin blue line looks at corrections as a wanna be.
I guess Ed Hopkins begged Bane to hire someone, make that anyone, to be the warden so he didn’t have to be the colonel and the warden like Carlavarro.
Gahler releases a list of those who endorse him… All has been’s who RETIRED… Go enjoy retirement. One who was acting warden, and was when several deaths occurred at the jail. If the supervisors worked harder to be good supervisors and less at trying to screw over those under them constantly writing them up for silly stuff that a quick chat would solve….spineless Moore will be good at weeding out those crappy “supervisors” who never should have been promoted.
You would like readers to believe that only retired Deputies endorse Mr. Gahler for Sheriff. That is so far from reality as to render your comments not credible. Do you really believe that any Deputy currently working under Bane and his henchmen would come out publicly and endorse someone other than Bane. Their career would be over and their life made hell from that point on. Let’s see who the deputies union endorses after the primary election is over and we know for sure who the final candidates are. They will endorse as a group, not individually.
So, you have crappy supervisors who write you up for “silly stuff” when they should just have a chat with you. How did they get to be supervisors? What is wrong with Sheriff Bane’s current promotion system that promotes all of these unqualified supervisors?
Just exactly what will Mr. Moore do to change the system? Do you think he has enough “spine” to tell Bane that his system is all screwed up and is promoting the wrong people? Maybe what’s wrong with the system is that it’s promoting people like Bane, people who don’t understand leadership, just politics. Think about it…. that’s what the Detention Center is getting for the Warden position, someone who is being appointed to the position for purely political gain and who knows nothing about leading a large correctional facility.
I see change coming alright….. not for the better however.
Did you forget to mention that Gahler was not liked by the troopers who worked for him!!!
That is why they all have Gahler signs in their yards. Moore will be the only trooper with a Bane sign and it only cost the taxpayer $100,000.
If Sheriff Bane is so dead on with this pick why did he let a Major retire who was experienced and could do the job? Then hire a State Trooper with no correctional experience? It took him how many years to come up with this? Kinda like hiring a mechanic to be a brain surgeon. I do not understand this decision?