Dallas Co. sheriff’s officers entered quarantined apartment
Tanya Eiserer
KHOU.com
Fri, 03 Oct 2014
DALLAS — Five members of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department who were briefly inside the apartment where a man with Ebola stayed have been temporarily put on leave.
“They’re very concerned,” said Christopher Dyer, president of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Association. ”Their families are concerned. You’ve got to go home and tell your spouse, ‘Hey, I was just inside this house where a guy had Ebola.'”
The three deputies, a sergeant, and a lieutenant accompanied the head of Dallas County Health and Human Services Department and a doctor into the apartment late Wednesday night. They had gone there on the orders of Sheriff Lupe Valdez to get the people inside to sign a court order forbidding them from leaving the apartment.
Dyer said deputies should never have been involved to begin with, because he considers it a federal issue and not a local matter.
“My anger is really with the feds,” he said. “Let’s move that family. Let’s move everybody out of that building. I don’t care if it’s overkill. Let’s do overkill. I don’t think sending a few deputies in there is the right course of action.”
What really raised everyone’s concern was when the order came down Thursday morning that the squad cars the deputies were in Wednesday were being taken out of service, Dyer said. Those cars are reportedly being cleaned.
Dyer said deputies – both those that went inside and those that didn’t – were told to bag up their uniforms and boots and turn them in. He said he contacted Valdez’s second in command, asking that the deputies be put on leave and be evaluated by medical staff.
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