LANCASTER, S.C. (AP) — Each the sheriff and an officer at a South Carolina sheriff’s workplace have been honored by a state regulation enforcement group.
Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile acquired an award for ethics and excellence and Lt. Christy Rogers was named officer of the yr final month by the South Carolina Legislation Enforcement Officers Affiliation.
Rogers has labored for the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Workplace for twenty-four years, going from a patrol deputy to supervising the company’s crime scene and proof unit.
Rogers’ exhausting work and cautious, methodical assortment of proof to doc crime scenes helps make arrests and guarantee the precise folks face punishment, each Faile and Solicitor Randy Newman stated.
Rogers additionally trains the technicians who work below her on the best way to be efficient witnesses when they should testify in court docket, Newman stated.
Faile has additionally spent his total profession with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Workplace, beginning as a patrol deputy earlier than turning into sheriff 13 years in the past.
Faile was honored with the Jackie Swindler Award for Ethics and Excellence for overseeing a division in a county whose inhabitants has doubled since he was employed and reaching out to different regulation enforcement companies, the South Carolina Legislation Enforcement Officers Affiliation stated.
The sheriff has put in revolutionary applications to assist drug addicts remedy as a substitute of jail and mapping strategies to extra rapidly decide patterns in crime to catch violators and stop extra unlawful acts, the affiliation stated.
