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Sheriff's office says average arrival about 9–12 minutes; officials dispute newspaper's characterization of response times
Summary
A town law-enforcement representative told the council that the sheriff's office averaged 12 minutes to arrive on-scene in August, and 9 minutes if five long cases are removed; officials said reported crime counts for the year remain low.
At a town council meeting, a representative of the sheriff's office responded to recent newspaper coverage of a downtown jewelry theft and related reporting that described slow response times. The speaker said the office recorded 36 in‑person responses in August and that the arithmetic average arrival time across those calls was 12 minutes; removing five unusually long responses (welfare checks and multi-jurisdiction incidents) reduced the average to about nine minutes.
The sheriff's office spokesperson told council members: “If…
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