• Assist department members when there is an accident or incident involving serious injury or death, and there is a need to provide comfort and counsel to injured persons and their families.
• Provide advice, counsel and spiritual support to department personnel and their families upon request.
• Assist in making referrals for qualified and specialized professional counseling as needed.
• Participate in department and community events by giving invocations, addresses, and benedictions.
• Assist in death notifications of homicide, suicide, accident or natural causes.
• Provide counseling and spiritual support to inmates housed in the Platte County Detention Facility.
• Provide direction and support of volunteer workers for all inmate programs.
• Participate in in-service training classes for community and department personnel.
• Coordinate spiritual care in emergency management responses.
• Provide liaison with other religious leaders in the community.

Information about Chaplain Corps

Reverend Joseph J. Taloff graduated from Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Counseling and from the St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri with a Master of Theology. Reverend Taloff was ordained as a Minister in 1976 by the Missouri West Annual Conference and has served in several churches throughout the state. Reverend Taloff retired in 1990 and currently serves in a volunteer position for the Platte County Sheriff’s Office.

816-858-1963
jtaloff@plattesheriff.org