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Gilpin County sheriff details staffing, jail programs and seeks opioid and co-responder grants
Summary
Sheriff Kevin Armstrong presented Gilpin County’s 2024 year-end public-safety report, highlighting dispatch staffing gains, digital-media and evidence workloads, jail population trends and voluntary treatment programs, and sought grant funding for telehealth and MAT programs.
Sheriff Kevin Armstrong presented Gilpin County’s 2024 year-end report to the Board of County Commissioners, reviewing dispatch and calls-for-service, victim-services caseloads, evidence and digital media inventory, body-worn camera volumes, and jail operations and programs.
The report said the county’s 911 center handled 4,095 emergency calls in 2025 (about 11.29 calls per day) and 21,272 inbound non-emergency calls. Armstrong thanked dispatch staff and noted the department recently increased the dispatch roster to six employees, with two in training.
The sheriff outlined evidence and digital-media work: 13,518 body-worn-camera videos were uploaded in the year and the department’s digital media inventory now includes more than 32,000 videos from body cams and other sources. Armstrong said staff are working through older evidence that must be disposed of under statutes and…
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