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The officers of the Special Investigations Division are comprised of over 120 years of
combined law enforcement experience in the enforcement of Florida's narcotics laws.
The division is made up of nine sworn officers, one technician and an administrative
support personnel. The officers within this unit are highly trained and experienced
in the field of drug related investigations, vice crimes such as prostitution, gambling
and organized crime. The division concentrates its efforts in the area of drug
related investigations and utilizes all methods of enforcement activities such as drug
sweeps, undercover purchases and reverse sting operations in order to accomplish this
goal. Long term and "Historical" cases are made with the more organized
and far reaching criminal element.
Officers utilize the most sophisticated surveillance equipment available on the market
today, some of which has been developed here at the sheriff's office by the division's own
in-house technician. Officers are available twenty-four hours a day for receiving
complaints and intelligence information on known and suspected drug traffickers and also
assisting other agencies with related investigations. Officers also participate in
an aggressive "Domestic" or home grown marijuana eradication program which has
become an ever increasing problem in Florida due to federal enforcement efforts on our
country's borders wishing to smuggle narcotics and other illegal substances into this
country and Bay County. Each officer within the division currently share
cross-designated authority as U.S. Customs Officers in order to broaden it's scope of
enforcement and prosecutorial boundaries.
The Bay County Sheriff's Office and its S.I.D. investigators are active members in the
Florida Sheriff's Association Statewide Task Force. The sheriff's statewide task
force is able to draw manpower and material assistance from sheriff's offices throughout
the state through mutual aid agreements and other cooperative endeavors. They also
share intelligence and other assets in this enforcement effort. It is very important
in the field of drug enforcement that information on these types of criminal activities
and violators be shared within the law enforcement community to better track these people.
The Special Investigations Division often acts on information provided by concerned
citizens, Crime Stoppers and other confidential sources to locate the source of these
problems and bring them to an end.
Last Updated:
January 08, 2008 |
