{"id":1355,"date":"2013-06-20T16:57:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2013-06-20T16:57:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T16:57:40","slug":"michael-sauschuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/michael-sauschuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 66: Portland Chief of Police Michael Sauschuck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a066
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0June 15
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Michael Sauschuck
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Michael Sauschuck\u00a0grew up in\u00a0a little known Maine town, called Madrid (a former town, now a part of the unorganized territory of East Central Franklin in Franklin County.\u00a0 Population 173).\u00a0 After graduating from Mount Abram Regional High school, Sauschuck joined the Marines.\u00a0 When he came back from the Marines he felt that law enforcement was the career path for him and studied Criminal Justice at USM.\u00a0 In 1997, Sauschuck joined the Portland police force, after working for four years as a reserve police officer in Old Orchard Beach.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) is joined in the studio by Portland Chief of Police Michael Sauschuck (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

During Sauschuck\u2019s 15 plus years in Maine law enforcement, he has earned many accolades.\u00a0 Sauschuck received an award for heroism in 1998, after he and Sergeant Ted Ross ran into a burning building on Alder Street before firefighters arrived and the two officers got the residents out safely.\u00a0 He also has been awarded the Sgt. Michael J. Wallace Award given by the Superior Officers Association for leadership in the department.\u00a0 Sauschuck is also the recipient of the Enrique Camarena Memorial Award from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.<\/p>\n

After being chosen by City Manager Mark Rees, Sauschuck was appointed Chief of the Portland\u00a0Police<\/a> by Portland City Council on February 7, 2012.\u00a0 Sauschuck was sworn-in during a ceremony on March 5, 2012.\u00a0 The process for choosing the new chief spanned 5 months and included over 80 candidates.\u00a0 Sauschuck was already acting as interim chief, when James Craig moved on to be chief of police in Cincinnati.\u00a0 As chief of Maine\u2019s largest municipal police force, Sauschuck manages a staff of over 200 people, which includes 162 officers and 50 civilians.<\/p>\n

Sauschuck and Mayor Michael Brennan<\/a> are actively involved in Maine gun legislature and trying to enforce stricter gun control laws.\u00a0 Sauschuck, along with other southern Maine police chiefs are opposing a bill (LD 660), that would allow Mainers to carry concealed weapons without a permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods was recently in the studio with Portland Chief of Police Michael Sauschuch. Sauschuck talked about joining the Marines in 1988 and how he will be a Marine for life. The two also discussed current gun control legislature, such as the recent bill LD 660, which relates to concealed weapons permits. They also discussed high-capacity magazines, along with military style assault weapons and the staggering statistics of gun violence in this country. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}