Candidate for
Sheriff, Coroner and Public Administrator; County of Riverside

OVER THREE DECADES OF SERVICE Sheriff Sniff has over 34 years of law enforcement experience. The grandson of one of the pioneering date and citrus growing families of the Coachella Valley, he grew up in the Indio area. He joined the Coachella Police Department in 1975 after graduation from the San Bernardino Sheriff's Academy. He was transferred to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in 1979, where he was initially assigned to the Indio Station, serving across the Coachella Valley.

As a young officer, he was instrumental in creating the department's first specialized traffic safety programs. He has held subsequent assignments in uniformed patrol operations in Riverside, the San Gorgonio Pass area, and Southwest Riverside County.

As a Captain, he held command assignments at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside, the Banning Sheriff's Station and the Ben Clark Training Center. As a Chief Deputy, he held assignments over Training and Personnel, and East and West county patrol operations. As an Assistant Sheriff, he was assigned oversight of all county court operations, jail operations and patrol operations divisions.

Today, Sheriff Stan Sniff leads the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, the second largest Sheriff's Department in California, with 4,600 full-time staff that oversee countywide patrol operations, jail operations, court security and coroner investigations.

A retired Colonel in the Army Reserve, Stanley Sniff was commissioned as an Armor officer out of the OCS program in 1973 at the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. He served 30 years in a variety of military staff and command assignments in infantry, armor and cavalry units.