The Union County
Sheriff's Office is made up of four divisions - Administrative, Uniform
Division, Criminal Investigation Division, and Jail Division. Each
division are important components in maintaining quality law enforcement
services for the citizens of Union County.
Chief
Deputy
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Chief Deputy Roger W. Gregory |
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Roger Gregory began his tenure in the Union County Sheriff's
Office in November of 1976, serving as a dispatcher / jailer and
later as a Patrol Deputy under Sheriff J.
Harold Lamb. He later worked as Patrol Deputy, Training Officer and
Investigator under Sheriff William A. Jolly. When Sheriff Wells
took office in 1993, he headed up the
Patrol Division as Captain before taking the reins as Chief
Deputy in 2001 under Sheriff Wells. Gregory is the only Deputy still
working that has worked for Sheriff Lamb, Sheriff Jolly, and Sheriff
Wells. Chief Gregory oversees the daily activities of the
Deputies, is responsible for training, evidence inventory, sex offender
registry, and maintains this website.
Administrative
The Clerical
Support Staff of the Sheriff's Office consists of four civilian
employees. Linda C. Jenkins, Administrative Assistant to the
Sheriff; Shannon D. Deaton, Criminal
History Analyst; and two Clerks; Carolyn Yarbrough, and Shelia Hunnicutt.
Each lady has their own
responsibilities and duties each day, but all are cross-trained to
insure that all positions are covered in the event of absences due to
sickness and or vacations.
The
Administrative Assistant to the Sheriff acts as the General Office
Manager and supervises the work of the Criminal History Analyst and the
Two Clerks. She handles all the Personal Secretary Duties for the
Sheriff and generally assists all of the employees in the Sheriff's
Office with their duties. She also works closely with the Command Staff
in preparing the annual budgets for the Sheriff's office. The
Administrative Assistant assures that all areas of the office run
smoothly and efficiently within our annual budget.
The Criminal
History Analyst works daily with bookings, dispositions, criminal
history checks, ticket inventory, N.C.I.C. validation, time sheets,
subpoenas, orders of destruction, sex offender registry, and other office duties when time
permits.
The two Clerks
answer the several telephone lines at the Sheriff's Office. Some of
their duties include the filing of all civil process and criminal
warrants received by the Sheriff's Office and disbursing them to the
Deputies for service, the daily processing of incident reports,
supplemental reports, pawn tickets, and greeting and assisting visitors
that come into the Sheriff's Office , as well as providing Criminal
History Checks for housing and employment applications.
Criminal
Investigation Division
The
Investigations Division is composed of four criminal investigators and
two narcotics investigators. The criminal investigators are responsible
for the investigation of crimes reported to the Sheriff's Office that
require an investigation. These crimes range from assaults and
burglaries to more serious crimes such as criminal sexual conduct and
murder.
The Narcotics
Officers are responsible for the investigation of illegal drug activity
within Union County. They work closely with other agencies within the
County and State to arrest and prosecute violators of drug offenses in
Union County.
Jail Division
The
present jail was built in1996 and 1997 with opening day being July 1,
1997. The S.C. Dept of Corrections rated the jails capacity at 26 for
males and 2 for females. In 2005 an addition was added primarily for
females bringing the total rated capacity to 40. The building is a
direct supervision, single level facility with approximately 13,000
square feet of floor space.
The
average daily population in 1998 ( first full year of operation) was 10
inmates. Since that time, the average daily population has increased to
48 as recorded during the first half of 2007.
The
Jail is staffed by 20 full time personnel. The jail Administrator is
also a certified police officer. His hours are normally first shift.
The four shifts are composed of a Corporal in charge of the shift
and three jail officers. They work 12 hours and rotate shift every 28
days, working 14 days out of 28. The jail also has two support officers.
They work 8 hour shifts during the jail's peak times.
The
County Jail has a working contract with an area Health Clinic. The jail
is located three and one half miles from the local hospital.
The
Jail houses inmates arrested by the Union County Sheriff's Office, State
Agencies, and has contracts with two municipal police departments to
house their inmates.
The
Union County Jail is a Division of the Union County Sheriff's Office
with the Administrator answering directly to the Sheriff
Jail Administrator: Lt . Jeff R. Lawson
Mailing Address: 1657 Jonesville Highway Union, S.C. 29379
Physical Address: 1657 Jonesville Highway Union, S.C. 29379
Telephone Numbers: 864-429-2823 429-2824
Fax 864-429-2819
Uniform Patrol
Division
Front Row L-R Sgt. DeAnne Haney, Sgt.
Russell Vinson, Sgt. James Wicks, Sgt. James Johnson, Cpl. Scott Ruby,
Cpl. Dean Gibson, Cpl. Jared Gilstrap
Second
Row L-R
Deputy Ashley Jackson, Deputy Roxie Belue, Cpl. Scott Griffin, Reserve
Sgt. Walker Babb, Deputy Tim Gaston, Deputy Randy Manus, Reserve Deputy
James Fowler.
Third
Row L-R
Deputy Russell Roark, Deputy Roger Hill, Deputy Wendy Childers, Cpl.
Jeff Wright, Deputy Kevin Smith, Deputy Tom McAbee, Deputy Tommy Cudd
Absent: Reserve Deputy Harry Pecko,
Reserve Deputy Todd Carter
The Patrol
Division of the Union County Sheriff's Office is responsible for
answering calls for service, patrolling the County which is an area of 516 square miles,
serving Civil Process, Criminal Warrants, and the
transportation of prisoners and Mental Patients to the proper facilities
within the State.
The shifts are
composed of a Sergeant, Corporal and two Deputies. Their shift schedule
is 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. for 28 days and 8:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m. for 28 days.
The shifts are 12 hours in length and a Patrol Deputy works 14 days in a
28 day cycle.
The Patrol
Division has three sub-divisions. We have a School Resource Officer in Lockhart High School each day. The
Family Court Division provides two Uniformed Deputies which are
responsible for Family Court Security and the service of all Family
Court notices, orders, and warrants; and the Reserve Deputy Division.
The
Reserves work with the full time Deputies to assist them as needed.
Reserves are used when special events are scheduled such as parades,
ball games, dances, or security details requiring a Law Enforcement
presence, or sickness in the Sheriff's Office requires additional
manpower.
2008 Ford Crown Victoria
Police Interceptor
2007 Ford Explorer 4 wheel
drive multipurpose patrol vehicle
Union
County
