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Sheriff Kevin Armstrong presents year-end report citing steady calls, jail and mental-health programs
Summary
Sheriff Kevin Armstrong told Gilpin County commissioners the department is handling steady 911 and service volumes while expanding in-jail behavioral health and medication-assisted treatment programs and implementing body-worn video and scanner systems.
Sheriff Kevin Armstrong delivered the Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office year-end report to the county commissioners, describing workloads, staffing, and several programs brought online over the past year.
Armstrong told the board the department’s communications center handled thousands of contacts: “13,518 videos were uploaded from the body cameras of our deputies,” he said when describing digital evidence handling, and he reported roughly 4,095 911 calls and more than 21,000 inbound calls in the period covered by the report. He said the department’s video inventory now totals more than 32,000 items, including body-worn-camera footage and videos from residents and businesses.
The report covered detention operations, patrol, dispatch, victim services and emergency management. Armstrong said the jail…
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