ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 

• Increased investment in community relationships through community events such as:

  • Started GCSO Community Division

  • NEW GCSO website (www.goochlandsheriff.com)

  • NEW GCSO Honor Guard Unit

  • Goochland Citizens Academy

  • Kids Fishing Day

  • GCSO Junior Deputy Camp

  • GCSO Teen Leadership Academy

  • D.A.R.E.

  • Project Lifesaver

  • Handle with Care

  • Annual Stock the Shelves food drive to benefit GoochlandCares

  • National Night Out

  • Candy, Costumes, & Cops

  • Vacation Watch, Business Watch, & Worship Watch

  • Drug Take-Back Box (in GCSO foyer)

  • American Flag Disposal Box (in GCSO foyer)

  • Safe Exchange Zone (in GCSO video monitored parking lot)

  • Text 2-911

  • RapidSOS (accurately pinpoints cellular 911 callers in real-time)

• Raised current employees and starting pay for deputies and dispatchers to recruit and retain the very best professionals who are committed to Goochland.

• Applied for and was awarded a grant to fully fund 2 full-time School Resource Officer (SRO) positions in GCPS elementary schools.  The grant award assisted GCSO in ensuring there is an SRO securing every public school in Goochland County.

• Awarded 6th reaccreditation through the Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission in September 2020.

• Founded the Goochland Sheriffs Foundation with a mission of supporting community outreach activities and programs of the Goochland County Sheriff’s Office.

• In 2022, Goochland County Sheriff’s Office deputies completed over three times the number of training hours required by the Department of Criminal Justice Services in two years in just one year alone.

• Awarded as the 64th agency in the United States to achieve the FBI's Law Enforcement Executive Development Association's Agency Trilogy Award. 

• NEW Regional Sheriffs' Emergency Response Team was created to support mutual aid and response to critical incidence collaboration between the sheriffs in Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, and Powhatan.

• Added two new K-9s to our team and equipped both with bullet-proof vests – Corporal Achilles and Corporal Liberty

• NEW GCSO equipment deployed:

  • ALL GCSO deputies equipped with body-worn cameras

  • Automated External Defibrillators (AED) placed in all GCSO patrol cars

  • Cell phones for all deputies

  • Patrol vehicle graphics

  • Prisoner cages installed in all patrol vehicles

  • Lighter/cooler bullet-proof vests for all deputies

  • Drone for search and rescue

  • Holster sensors 

  • Additional radar trailers & sign boards

  • NEW utility terrain vehicle

  • NEW forensics van

  • NEW prisoner van