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RIGHT: The beautiful new facility
at 1345 Falling Creek Road was completed in 1998. It serves as headquarters
for the BCSO as well as the new E-911 Dispatch Center, which handles communications
for the BCSO, Bedford City Police, county-wide fire and rescue, and the
Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries.
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LEFT: Deputy Cindy Sharpe greets visitors
to the Bedford County Sheriff's Office at 1345 Falling Creek Road. Not only is she a good cop, but she can answer the phones, send a fax, press the door buzzer, and call up records on the computer all at the same time -- look, ma, no hands! |
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RIGHT: Sgt. Mike Miller, head of the
School Resource Officer Unit, pauses with Sheriff Mike Brown. The
Sheriff established the S.R.O. Unit when he took office and 1996 and, in
cooperation with Superintendent Dr. James Blevins, has continued to expand
the program in every school county-wide.
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LEFT: Lined up for duty: |
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RIGHT: Sgt. Mike Miller and Master
Deputy George Thomas
of the School Resource Officer Unit. Hint: Deputy Thomas is the one the size of an oak tree. |
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LEFT: Sheriff Mike Brown has worked hard to see that his deputies are among the best-equipped, best-trained and best paid in the region. |
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RIGHT: DAREN, The D.A.R.E. Lion.
The D.A.R.E. Program is presented in schools by the S.R.O. Unit throughout
Bedford County, as is the Safe Surfin' Internet Safety Program by the Operation
Blue Ridge Thunder Task Force.
As evident in the photos above and below, each BCSO
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LEFT: (Front to back) Deputies Steve McKinney and "Ricco," Deputy Penny Heffinger, Master Deputy George Thomas, Deputy Rachel Crabtree, and Sgt. Mike Miller. |
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RIGHT: Deputy Rachel Crabtree catches
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LEFT: (Standing, left to right) Sgt. Mike Miller, Deputy Penny Heffinger, Sheriff Mike Brown, Deputy Rachel Crabtree, and Master Deputy George Thomas. Kneeling: Deputy Steve McKinney with Deputy "Ricco." |
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RIGHT: The BCSO SRO Unit: (left
to right) Standing: Sgt. Mike Miller and Master Deputy George Thomas.
Kneeling: Deputy Penny Heffinger, Deputy Steve McKinney, and Deputy
Rachel Crabtree. FRONT: Deputy "Ricco."
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LEFT: Master Deputy Thomas has his share of paperwork. |
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RIGHT: Men and women of the BCSO pause
briefly at Safe Surfin' Day at Salem Memorial Stadium in May 1999.
The Salem Avalanche, Pepsi, Gotcha and Blue Ridge Thunder delivered a solid
Internet Safety message to more than 5,100 students from Bedford County
Schools and treated them to a FREE ballgame.
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LEFT: 24 May 1999: 1st Annual Safe Surfin' Day. Sheriff Mike Brown with the beloved mascot of the Carolina League Salem Avalance, "Mugsy." (Mugsy's the one in the white jersey.) Sheriff Mike threw out the first pitch for the contest between the home team and cross-county rival, the Lynchburg Hillcats. By the time Sheriff Mike's pitch reached home plate, the ball had vaporized, leaving a tangled mess of smoking threads on the ground and delaying start of the game for several minutes. |
| RIGHT: Also at Safe Surfin' Day were the K-9 Unit of the BCSO for a demonstration to more than 5,000 spectators. Here, Deputies Saunders and "Volco" pause on the field. (That's our analyst, Robin Sundquist, supervising in the top right of the photo.) |  |
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LEFT: Armed with MousePads, Deputies Donna Beach (left) and Wayne Reynolds (right) join their Sheriff in handing out more than 5,000 FREE Safe Surfin' mousepads at Salem Stadium. |
| RIGHT: Sheriff Mike Brown, Analyst Robin Sundquist, and Staff Support Specialist / Webmaster Don Garlock, Jr. take a breather at the ballgame. |  |
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LEFT: We even got Bedford County Commonwealth's Attorney Randy C. Krantz, Esq. (center, behind the Foster-Grants) out to Salem for the beautiful, but windy, Safe Surfin' Day at the ballpark. Randy is an integral part of the Operation Blue Ridge Thunder Task Force. |
| RIGHT: Lt. Kent Robey stands guard at two vehicles -- Z-28 Camaros -- from the BCSO Special Drug Enforcement Patrol, with the world-famous Peaks of Otter as his backdrop. |  |
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LEFT: Part of the BCSO Special Drug Suppression
Unit -- (left to right) Deputy Reggie Coles, Sheriff Mike Brown, Lt. Kent
Robey, and Sgt. Steve Brooks --
with the Peaks of Otter in the distance. That's Sharp Top on the left and the slightly taller Flat Top (elev. 4,004 feet) on the right. About 200 years ago, when the Blue Ridge was the frontier, the Peaks were thought to be the highest mountains in America. Mr. Jefferson used to like to ramble up to the top of Sharp Top... and did so as late as his 82nd birthday (13 April 1825) about 15 months before his death on 4 July 1826. |
| RIGHT: The "cockpit" of one of the specially-equipped BCSO Drug Suppresion Unit Z-28 Camaros. These vehicles were equipped largely with drug forfeiture money. |  |
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LEFT: Everybody wants to "fly" one of these things... but only a select few get to do so: here, Deputy Reggie Coles straps on one of the BCSO Z-28s. |
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RIGHT: Even Sheriff Mike gets a "glory
shot" with a Z.
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LEFT: What you DON'T want to see in your rear-view mirror. |
| RIGHT: The Bedford County Sheriff's Office employs the Ford Crown Victoria and Explorer, and the Chevy Tahoe and Z-28 Camaro. In 1996, at the direction of Sheriff Mike Brown, the BCSO broke with tradition for a point of safety and fiscal responsibility: we switched from brown metallic vehicles to white. The latter, with crisp, custom designed graphics, not only significantly enhance visibility and safety, they save tens of thousands of dollars in paint jobs each year. |  |
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