Photos: Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Clarence W. Dupnik was Pima County Sheriff from 1980 until his retirement in 2015.
The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted to rename the Sheriff’s Department Headquarters in honor of former Sheriff Dupnik.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Clarence Dupnik announcing his candidacy for Pima County Sheriff in April, 1980. After being appointed to the position, he was ultimately elected by voters in November. Joan Rennick / Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik at a swearing-in ceremony in 1980. Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Clarence Dupnik as a police officer in 1958. Tucson Police Dept.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Tucson Police Sgt. Clarence Dupnik in 1965. Tucson Police Dept.
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Clarence Dupnik in 1971. Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Major Clarence Dupnik of the Tucson Police Dept. in November, 1976, months before he took over as chief deputy at the Pima County Sherff's Dept. Art Grasberger / Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Clarence Dupnik in 1982. Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Clarence Dupnik in 1976. Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Tucson Police Major Clarence Dupnik, left, talks to officers at the scene of the shooting death of undercover TPD officer Barry Headricks on E. Eighth Street on Oct. 28, 1974. Joan Rennick / Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik on the scene on Mile Wide Road in far West Pima County after a man held his two small children hostage for nearly 12 hours in 1982. Peter Weinberger / Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Attorney Steve Neely, left, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik and Dean Taylor in costume to give a Halloween safety talk to children at Carrillo School in 1987. David Sanders / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik talking to reporters in April, 1980, after the arrest of Deputy Pima County District Attorney Ron Lehman on drug charges. Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik speaking to a crowd in 1984 after the abduction of Vicki Lynn Hoskinson. Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, left, speaking at during a press conference on Sept. 20, 1984, to announce the arrest of two men in connection with the abduction of Vicki Lynn Hoskinson. Others pictured: County Attorney Steve Neely and FBI agents Dick Swinson and Richard Rogers. Joy Wolf / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik at a press conference in 1986. Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik during a press conference at the on January 9, 2011, the day after the mass shooting at a Safeway in NW Pima County. Benjie Sanders / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Sheriff Clarence Dupnik as the President and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive in Tucson for a memorial service for victims of shooting rampage that killed six people in 2011. Associated Press
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Mavy Stoddard, center, gets a hug from Sheriff Dupnik while accepting the Sheriff's Citizen Medal for her husband Dorwan Stoddard, who was shot in killed with five others in 2011. Dean Knuth / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik lays a wreath at the Ernest Calvillo Memorial in front of the administration building on May 3, 2005. The program honored the nine deputies who died in the line of duty since 1883. A.E. Araiza / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik talks about the arrest of Ronald Young in connection with the Nov. 1, 1996, car-bombing murder of Gary Triano at La Paloma Country Club, during a press conference in 2008. Greg Bryan / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, left, and County Attorney Stephen Neely languish in vigilante jail waiting for bail to be raised during Rodeo Week in 1984. Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Sheriff Clarence W Dupnik gives the thumbs up to the crowd on election night in 1996 at the Knights of Columbus in Tucson. Sergey Shayevich / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik golfs at Oro Valley County Club in 1991. Jack Rickard / Tucson Citizen
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik smiles and visits with friends from Bisbee during a surprise retirement celebration and roast for Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik at the Westin La Paloma Resort in June. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik
Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik can only smiles as Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons makes jokes at the sheriff's expense. In the background, public information officers Tracy Suitt and Tom Peine, right, bring in an Italian vase that retired Sen. Dennis DeConcini had ordered to be made as a gift during a retirement roast for Dupnik in June. Mike Christy / Arizona Daily Star
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