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Sheriff briefs commissioners on staffing, SRO incidents and federal-agency partnerships; explains ICE detainer process
Summary
The Union County sheriff’s office summarized staffing levels, town policing contracts, specialized units, and school-resource-officer incident reporting. The sheriff said deputies do not actively seek undocumented immigrants and described the jail fingerprint-to-detainer process and the 48-hour ICE detainer limit.
The Union County Sheriff’s Office provided an operational briefing to commissioners on Feb. 18 covering patrol vehicles, staffing, town contracts, specialized units, school resource officer (SRO) incident reporting and federal law-enforcement partnerships.
In presentation remarks, the sheriff said patrol vehicles function as deputies’ mobile offices and the agency has shifted from older police-package vehicles to pickup trucks and SUVs to accommodate equipment. The department listed about 373 total funded positions (including part-time) across seven divisions and two chief deputies; staff noted some positions are part-time. The Indian Trail town contract was described as the largest, with 36 total employees paid under that…
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