Cherokee County Sheriff's Office

The Cherokee County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina runs a detention center that opened in the summer of 2008, replacing a 1922 jail designed just for people awaiting trial. The newer building uses indirect supervision and separate dorms, among them medical, juvenile, female, male, maximum security and work-release housing, with room to grow later. Every detention shift has both a male and a female officer on duty for rounds of the matching cell blocks. A transport division moves local and federal inmates to court, medical appointments, work details and Department of Corrections sites and takes people under involuntary commitment to medical facilities. An in-house medical division screens new arrivals, does physical exams and manages medications, working with community agencies on chronic illness, detox and mental health care. The office's victim advocate is available at any hour for on-scene crisis counseling and stays with victims through investigation and court, offering court and medical accompaniment, transportation and referrals; the program received the National Sheriffs' Association's Crime Victim Services Award in June 2009. Explorer Post 422, formed in 2009 for high school students, has trained Explorers in dispatch, detention, patrol and search and rescue.

Public contact information is available for Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, including 1 listed contact that officers can use for training coordination or general inquiries when provided by the department.