It just keeps getting worse for the 73 year old Pay-to-Play Wanna Be Sheriff. It now appears the Active Shooter training he had said he had accomplished in Maricopa County, AZ was a complete fabrication. They apparently do not offer it to Officers from outside of the area.
Please check out what the Tulsa World News has to say about it below the fold.
"Also in Bates’ statement, he said he received “active shooter training” from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona.
Lisa Allen, chief media relations office for the sheriff’s office there, said they had no record of Bates attending their training.
In fact, Allen said, that training is available only to members of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, meaning Bates would not have been eligible to participate. The class, Allen said, has been offered only three times.
“We don’t allow out-of-state people to take the class,” she said. “I’m only surmising, and I can’t confirm this because this would not have been our class, but our active shooter instructor did travel to Dallas once to teach a class.”
That class, according to an Arizona Republic report, was taught by a Maricopa County instructor through an organization called the National Tactical Officers’ Association.
However, Don Kester, director of training and education for NTOA, told the Arizona Republic that Bates does not belong to the association, nor is there any record of his registering or attending an NTOA training event."
So, it is starting to appear more likely that the skills required to perform the job were either falsified, or waived. Either way there is no possible explanation as to why the 73 year old mistook his revolver, with a very distinct handle, with his taser, which also has a very distinct handle.