Citizen contact is especially important to the sheriff, as his office logged over 350,000 in the last year.
Our communities like their law enforcement and our law enforcement loves working within our communities.
Today, he gets to share the news with the supervisors that Hanover County’s crime rate is the lowest since 1976 at 9.6%, “which means that 9.6 citizens were a victim of a crime out of 1,000 citizens.”
“Law enforcement cannot do it by itself; it has to have a community that’s willing to serve alongside its law enforcement.”
Those extra “eyes” keeping tabs on the goings-on in Hanover County have paid off as Hines noted a decline in robberies and break-ins.
All excerpts from the Sherriff's budget proposal speech as reported in the Richmond Times Dispatch 2/13/18. Then if, as these posts suggest, he encrypts his radio system. Good job Col. Hines. This sure demonstrates your willingness to "work with the community" Ah well, it had to happen sooner or later.
Eugene KG4AVE