Community Service Center Volunteer Information

What is the Sheriff's Community Service Center?
The four Sheriff's Community Service Centers are local and easily accessible extensions of the Sheriff's Office, offering citizens an opportunity to speak directly to a Sheriff's office representative.  By voicing your concerns directly to the Sheriff's office, you assist us in tailoring our law enforcement activities to the specific needs of your community.  Each Center is staffed by a Sheriff's Sergeant and by citizen volunteers who want to take an active role in solving the crime problems of their neighborhoods.  By working together to identify problems and by forming partnerships based upon common goals and complementary strategies, law enforcement officials and community members can deal more effectively and efficiently with crime than they could by working separately.

What is the role of the Community Service Volunteers?
Citizens who volunteer at the Service Center are instrumental in improving the quality of life in their community.  Volunteers work as a team with the Sheriff's Office to provide a host of neighborhood services.  As a volunteer, you help the Sheriff's office decentralize law enforcement and take it out into the community where it is most needed.  By giving your time to the Sheriff's office, you also ease the burden on deputies working in the field, allowing them to devote more time to fighting serious crime issues.

What are the duties of the Community Service Volunteers?
As a Sheriff's Community Service Volunteer, you could be called upon to provide a variety of services, including:

• Writing reports and making copies
• Providing crime-prevention information
• Offering referral services
• Answering citizen phone calls
• Conducting crime analysis surveys
• Managing youth services programs
• Fingerprinting children for I.D. purposes
• Assisting in neighborhood watch
• Processing recovered property
• Spotting crime and criminal suspects
• Coordinating community events
• Interfacing with neighborhood schools
• Processing drug, gang, and child-safety information
• Partnering with public agencies to provide long-term solutions to public safety issues