Sheriff Brad Pope presents 2025 annual report highlighting training, response-time improvements and drug enforcement

Sheriff Brad Pope delivered the Lyon County Sheriff27s Office 2025 annual report, highlighting staffing, training and operations.

Pope said the office will be fully staffed in mid-February and reported 16,242 training hours in 2025 (SEG 1064-1076). He credited dispatch triage, field training, and operational changes for a notable reduction in emergency response times over the last three years and described traffic enforcement as the agency27s number-one community complaint and enforcement priority (SEG 1164-1175, SEG 1184-1196).

Pope reported increased traffic stops (noting a 400% rise in Dayton) and described partnerships such as the OTS grant overtime program that supports traffic enforcement; he said the SIU drug unit recovered more than 6.34 pounds of methamphetamine along with smaller amounts of fentanyl and cocaine (SEG 1246-1256, SEG 1446-1450). He emphasized fentanyl27s potency even at small weights and noted increased mixing of fentanyl with methamphetamine.

On detention operations, Pope said jail incidents reported a significant decrease while average daily inmate population rose to about 98 inmates per day; he also noted reporting inconsistencies in the transfer of charts for suicidal incident counts and corrected the number to 68 (SEG 1268-1300, SEG 1319-1328). He attributed some trends to greater availability of full-time medical resources in the jail and to broader mental-health pressures in the county and nationwide.

He highlighted expanded school resource officer coverage and an active drone unit, canine program updates, reinstituted inmate-worker crews for public projects, volunteer programs and grant-seeking to reduce county match costs for equipment.

Commissioners asked about statistical anomalies and training opportunities; several thanked the sheriff for community presence and partnership on events and school programs. The report closed without board action.