About

Law Enforcement Training and experience:

• Oct. 5^th 2010: Sworn -in- Sumner County Sheriff’s Office Reserve Deputy
• March 2011: Graduated Part-Time training Academy Class #35
• 2011-2013 :  Part-time Deputy Sheriff
• June 2011: Received Marksman level Firearms Training
• 2012-2016: Police Chief South Haven Police Department
• 2019-2020: Police Officer Peabody Police Department
• March 2020: Candidate for Sumner County Sheriff
• 2020-2021: Full-time Police Officer Conway Springs Police Department
• April 2021 : Graduated Class President of Basic Training Class #276
• 2021 – 2023: Deputy Chief of Police Conway Springs Police Department

Accomplishments:

• Class President – Basic Training
• Keynote Speaker Basic Class Graduation
• Advanced DUI recognition certificate 2012
• Elected as Sumner County Republican Party Committeeman 2020
• Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police member
• Graduate of Kansas Police Administrators Seminar 2022
• FBI-LEEDA Supervisor Leadership Institute
• FBI-LEEDA Command Leadership Institute
• FBI-LEEDA Executive Leadership Institute
• Received FBI-LEEDA Trilogy Certificate 2023
• FBI-LEEDA Membership recipient

About Me:

Born and raised in Sumner County, graduate of South Haven High School. I was raised on Law enforcement income , strong Christian values,  and as the son of late Sumner County Sheriff Kenny Boyd.  

I bought my first piece of Sumner County land in 2008, and built a home on that property 5 years later in 2013, which is where we still currently reside and the headquarters to our farming operation. I am a 1^st generation Sumner County farmer. What started with an 80 acre tract of land in 2008, and not owning 1 piece of equipment has now turned into Boyd Ag Inc.  with nearly 1,500 acres of farmland and 3,000 acre Custom Harvesting business. With the odds not in my favor from the start, this awarded many lessons in resiliency. Erecting a business like this from the ground-up, to now over a half-million dollar annual revenue and over a million dollars’ worth of equipment and Assets also equips me with budgeting experience unique and essential to office of the Sheriff.

Beginning From high school I went on to earn an Applied Science degree from Cowley County Community College. With law enforcement being the most likely path for me after college, there was also an unexpected opportunity for me with BNSF Railway. BNSF was just beginning to launch a very large “double track” project out of Wellington in the upcoming years and this would be the timing of a rare opportunity with a fortune 500 company. Despite this, my heart still preferred to pursue law enforcement. My father, on the other hand, wanted me to be protected by the financial opportunity and health benefits that could only come from a company like this.

In 2004 at the age of 20 I was hired on with BNSF Railway , where I continued my education with Johnson County Community College and spent 8 years. First as a Welder, then Section Foreman, and lastly a Track Supervisor on the Kansas Division. None of which came easy, especially having to earn respect as a young foreman in charge of a large crew of experienced laborers with diverse talents. This most certainly was a challenge that afforded me many early lessons in life on how to be a successful leader.

My journey of Service began with the Sumner County Sheriff’s Department in 2010 as Deputy Sheriff. This was a heavily weighted decision as I already had an 8-year invested career with BNSF and was in the beginning years of building the Farm, but after much consideration I had made the decision to make the transition to the calling I felt was on my heart – public service. Under the natural course of a father who had seen the things my father had, he was not initially excited about me leaving my career to pursue this way-of-life, but he saw my empathy and compassion through to support me with all of him. This is an honor I still carry very proudly.

From there I accepted the appointment as Chief of Police in my hometown of South Haven in 2012. This gave me another angle of leadership and experience. Knowing the community personally, I was able to push out and prosecute drugs and theft, while beginning to learn some of the administrative side to law enforcement. I was also able to bring peace to citizens who were affected by a prior lack of police presence. Also, with the assistance of the Kansas Highway Patrol and other supporting agencies I was able to conduct educational and prevention workshops at the school, while also conducting scheduled K-9 sniffs and community involvement events.

After 4 years as the Chief in my hometown I decided in 2016 with another cycle of city council members flushing through and friction building against the governing body it was time for me to resign and take a pause from Law enforcement. This turned out to be a blessing as my farm was expanding and children growing, and this was a pivotal time for both. This period was special as I look back. It is where I was able to push hard to be able to sustain the farm and ensure its success at the level it is today. It also provided me with time to reflect and take a peculiar look at what problems our local law enforcement was having then. I was still very connected to all my cop friends who I had worked with and built relationships with. It was during this break of not serving where many reached out to talk about what was “going on” what was “broke”. I was able to listen to those affected, deputies from the Sheriff’s office, and officers from our other local agencies. Turnover was painfully high.  Many good deputies had been terminated and many wanted to leave. Agencies were not working together. Orders were being sent down in a sneaky fashion, and on and on..

It was then in 2019 when I decided I could no longer “sit back” and watch I entered back into law enforcement as a police officer and decided to run for Sheriff. It was through this campaign that I realized so much of what was going on the general public had no idea about. This was my 1^st attempt at running for Sheriff and this also just happened to be when our Country was hit with the COVID pandemic. Which made things terribly hard to reach all these people who I knew desperately needed to know the truth as to what was really going on with this department and law enforcement in this county.

Much was learned and gained through this campaign despite our narrow loss of less than 5% in August 2020… and although It was temporary, it was through the efforts of this campaign, the citizens saw the 1^st ever “voluntary” decrease to the Sheriff’s department outlandish budget, and a large reduction in unnecessary department vehicles that were stacking up.

My campaign also opened the door for the next Chapter of my career, Conway Springs Police Department where I have been serving the last 3 years as an officer and the Deputy Chief of Police. This has allowed me to acquire and advance my training and experience which has been essential in getting me to the peak of my law enforcement career and fully prepared for the next level.

Faith and family have helped me through all these journeys, to arrive where I am today. My passion, drive, and resilience are attributes that I want to share with you – as your next Sheriff of Sumner County.         

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