Message From Chief Deputy Sheriff
 Chief Deputy Sheriff - James Hanson |
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Thank you for visiting the Vernon County Sheriff’s Department website. It is a privilege for me to serve our county citizens and Sheriff Cary as the Chief Deputy Sheriff since 2001. I act in the Sheriff’s absence and serve as the lead operations and administrative officer for the department. We are combining time-proven methods with emerging technologies to confront the criminal challenges to our way of life. Although we experience all crimes statistically, property crimes tend to be our greatest threat. We are pleased that those crimes have been reduced by a consistent 23 per cent over the past seven years. As law enforcement professionals, we credit this reduction to a security conscious and aggressive patrol staff along with a competent investigations division. Vernon County has three incorporated cities, nine villages, and twenty-one townships. All three cities have municipal police agencies and eight of the nine villages have local officers or contracted law enforcement through the Sheriff. In addition to the Sheriff’s Department, two municipal agencies provide police canine services for drug detection, search and rescue, and fleeing criminal apprehension. A well-trained and very effective police tactical team has been developed since 2000 in combination with the other police agencies in the county. The Vernon County Sheriff’s department is proud to partner with all of these local agencies in crime fighting and share our resources, such as E911 dispatching, criminal investigators, community policing, narcotics enforcement, police canine, local officer replacement when absent, and local officer patrol back-up in dangerous situations. Our goal is that the public feels no loss in police coverage, security, or call answering ability.The Vernon County Sheriff’s Department has a heritage that asserts the slogan of “a tradition of service since 1851.” That phrase appears on our office building, our marked police cars, and our stationery. The men and women of this department are proud to protect you and serve your needs 24 hours each day, 365 days of every year. Jim Hanson |
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