To the editor:

When I began my law enforcement career at the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office several years ago I remember the first time I met Steve Hoffman.  I was in the Administrative Office completing final employment forms when I notice what I thought was a building and grounds worker due to the worn and stained clothing.  Little did I know at the time this was my first lesson of many from one of my Field Training Officers that was currently assigned to the Mid Iowa Drug Task Force.

Several weeks later, I was formally introduced to my Field Training Officer, Deputy Sheriff Steve Hoffman.  I couldn’t have been more wrong with my first impression of Steve who was now in a freshly pressed Deputy Sheriff’s uniform.