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                                                                       MISSION STATEMENT

“The mission of the Crook County Sheriff’s Office is to work in partnership with all citizens to preserve life, maintain human rights, and to protect property with the ultimate goal of maintaining and/or improving the quality of life in our county; to hold ourselves accountable to our community and to recognized professional law enforcement standards.”

The Office of Sheriff is a constitutional office for the State of Oregon and is the only elected law enforcement position in the state or in the country for that matter. It has been important over the years that the "Sheriff" is elected and thus accountable directly to the people. The "Sheriff" answers only to the people and is not directed by any other body, elected or appointed person. Being answerable only to the voters provides for integrity in enforcing the law by not having a "boss" that might dictate otherwise.  Additionally the current Sheriff, Sheriff Rodd Clark, has an open door policy to the public and will see you if you drop by and he is available or you can make an appointment to insure he will be in when you can come by.  The Sheriff is interested in your opinions and observations and holds several "Town Hall Meetings" at two different times each year in outlying areas just to meet and hear from the citizens where it is easy for them to attend.

Although the sheriff's office has struggled at times over the years for appropriate funding and adequate trained personnel it has persevered until it has become the modern full-service law enforcement agency that it is today. The County Government and the Sheriff are fiscal conservatives and thus are cautious with how money in appropriated for growth to meet service requirements. We still only have, at times during each day, one deputy on duty for the entire county (population 20,600 and 2991 square miles) but we are working with County Government to add enough deputies to have a minimum of two on duty at any given time both for officer safety issues and to timely meet the requests for service from the community. Fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you view the growth of the county our needs are increasing at a significant rate, as the county is one of the fastest growing in the state.

The Sheriff's Office consists of several different divisions with the duties and employees listed below:

1. Administrative and Records Division:

a. Under this division are all records, civil service, property accountability, evidence control and equipment maintenance activities.

b. There are five employees in this division, three records deputies, one civil deputy/administrative assistant to the sheriff, one technical deputy, which are supervised by the Undersheriff.

2. Operations Division:

a. Under this division are all patrol services, seasonal patrol services (Marine and Bureau of Reclamation), investigations, traffic enforcement, and courthouse security activities.

b. There are eleven full-time and eight seasonal or part-time employees in this division, seven patrol deputies, one criminal detective, one narcotics detective (assigned to the Central Oregon Drug Enforcement team), six seasonal patrol deputies (summer months only), and several part time deputies, which are supervised by two patrol sergeants.

3. Jail Division:

a. Under this division all prisoners are managed, housed, fed, transported to rented jail space and to court appearances.

b. There are eight full-time and three part-time employees in this division, six corrections deputies, one corrections sergeant, one technical deputy (transports), which are supervised by the jail commander.

4. Community Corrections Division:

a. Under this division are parole and probation services, community services, work crew, and related transitional and treatment services.

b. There are six full-time and one part-time employees in this division, three parole and probation deputies, one office deputy, one work crew supervisor technician, one work program coordinator and one part-time parole and probation deputy, which are supervised by the community corrections director.

5. Special Services Division:

a. Under this division are the Sheriff's Search and Rescue services and the County's Emergency Management program.

b. There is one full-time employee and 30 plus or minus volunteers in this division. The one full-time SAR/EM Coordinator employee supervises this division.

EMERGENCIES: DIAL 9-1-1

You will be connected to the Prineville dispatch center and a deputy will be dispatched.

Sheriff's Business Office Hours:  8 am until 5 pm daily except for Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.

Locations:

1. The main Administrative/Patrol Operations/Special Services office is located at 308 NE 2nd Street, Prineville, Oregon 97754, (541) 447-6398, Fax (541) 416-0353, ccso.records@psnet.us

2. The Jail office is located at 400 NE 3rd Street, Prineville, Oregon 97754, (541) 416-3620, Fax (541) 447-8619, ccso.ltbond@psnet.us

3. The Community Corrections office is located at 301 Ne 3rd Street, Prineville, Oregon 97754, (541) 447-3315, Fax (541) 447-4921, Rhonda.Belanger@doc.state.or.us