Key Accomplishments

Increased community involvement and citizen partnerships

• Sheriff’s and Citizens Action Committee.
• Community Surveillance Partner Program  -  residents and businesses can register their video camera  with the  Sheriff's Office or local municipality agencies. This can help facilitate collection of video evidence crucial for investigations.   
• Helping Everyone Learn to Prevent Scams (HELPS) - RCSO in conjunction with the Randolph County Public Library System’s Digital Services Librarian, present programs for citizens about scams/frauds, ways to prevent them, and ways to protect yourself when using the internet.  

 

Proactive policing techniques and proactive enforcement implemented 

• Reinstated the Criminal Interdiction Team (Highway and Urban); re-organized the Vice Narcotics Division.
• Increased Patrol Presence and decreased response times.
• Enhanced courthouse security through updated technology.
• Established the Vice Narcotics Enforcement Team (VNET) to work focused traffic enforcement. VINET  will further narcotics investigations and focus on investigating complaints and tips related to the sale, distribution, and use of narcotics.   

 

Deputy Safety

• Issued Body Worn Cameras to patrol. 
• Created a Peer Support Counseling Team and offered debriefings for employees who have experienced a critical/traumatic incident.
• Expanded Canine Unit (added 9 dogs).
• Replaced aging patrol vehicles.

 

Departmental

• Implemented an open-door policy.
• Removed the Sheriff’s name from badge, cars, signs, banners, stickers, and buildings.
• Constitutional Sheriff (Created Resolution to protect your 2nd Amendment Rights).
• Developed and implemented Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) 
• Developed and implemented Professional Standards Reports to monitor and identify potential adverse behaviors/actions of deputies/officers. 

 

Detention Center

• Substance Abuse Counselor through Daymark.
• Full-body scanner for drug and weapon detection.
• Detention Center Detective to investigate crimes committed inside the facility and charge accordingly. 
• Completed Detention Center expansion.
• Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Program - helps to combat in-custody overdoses and address inmate addiction.   MAT costs are largely reimbursed by grant funding through opioid settlement funds and grant funding from the NC Department of Public Safety.
• “Thinking for a Change” – classes for inmates offered through RCC. 

 

Collaboration with Other Agencies/Entities

• NC Zoo - Implemented Plan of Action for possible threats. 
• Trinity Patrol - six full-time deputies in cooperation with the City of Trinity in July 2024.
• Expanded Federal Task Force Officers Program 
•  Veterans Treatment Court Program - Established through grant funding in collaboration with the District Attorney’s Office, District Court Judges, Randolph County Clerk of Court, NC Division Community Corrections, Veterans’ Services, local defense attorneys, and mental and behavioral health providers.
• Town of Ramseur – Six positions assigned to provide law enforcement services to the Town of Ramseur.  The Town fully reimburses all expenses for the positions.   

 

Fiscal Responsibility

• Fleet Maintenance Facility - Reduced spending in first year $91,000.00.
• Review all contracts and find areas to save by renegotiating or finding other service providers. Examples include a new Detention Center medical provider – saving $200,000 the first year and a new commissary provider resulting in 15% more commissary revenue for the County. 
• At low/no cost, converted all record keeping, documenting, and reporting to paperless systems, saving time, converting storage to office space, and preventing costly future archiving and purge projects

 

Protecting our Children

• Added summer DARE and CARE programs for home school. 
• Created Junior Sheriff’s Academy for Exceptional Children. 
• Four additional SROs for Randolph County Schools. 
• Invictus Task Force - a fusion center in Randolph County to proactively investigate child exploitation, solicitation, and trafficking. Partners include Sheriffs of Alamance, Davidson, and Forsyth Counties, NC SBI, and Department of Homeland Security.