2009 Annual Activity Summary

The Sheriff’s Department’s various divisions operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with a staff of 74 full-time employees supplemented by an additional 25 part-time employees and Sheriff’s Reserve Officers. Approximately 70% of the full-time employees work rotating shifts and days off, which places additional demands and responsibilities on each employee, not to mention, the hardships placed upon the families.

 

Download this information in .pdf format, here. Changes are continually being made to improve the operational effectiveness and to enhance the fiscal efficiency of the department as ever-increasing demands for services face each division.

 

Enforcement Division:

$33,486.58 was collected from fees associated with civil process entered, crash reports, firearms permits and other miscellaneous services.

 

$425.00 was collected due to the enforcement of the false alarm ordinance which became effective in early 2007.

 

Sheriff’s Sales due to mortgage foreclosures increased from 290 in 2008, to 316 in 2009. We continue to see increases in foreclosure filings each year.

 

Patrol Summary (2009):

 

Total Criminal Arrests: 856

Felony Arrests: 266
Misdemeanor Arrests: 590

Criminal Cases investigated (Only Class A Misdemeanor and Felony Offenses): 585

Crashes investigated: 653

Collisions w/injury: 89
Collisions w/fatality: 2
Collisions/property damage: 562
Total injuries: 116
Total fatalities: 2

Traffic Summons issued: 1466

 

Written Warnings: 3169

 

Operating while Intoxicated Offenses: 334

 

Total fleet miles: 541,094+

The Noble County Special Operations Group (NCSOG), which is comprised of 11 members, one officer from the Albion Police Department, one Medic from Parkview-Noble, one Communications Officer from the Sheriff’s Department and eight Deputies with the Sheriff’s Department, were deployed on 21 occasions in 2009.

 

The majority of the 21 deployments were for drug related search warrants or buy-bust details.

5 barricaded subjects

 

NCSOG Arrests and Seizures in 2009:

 

36 suspects arrested

 

3 weapons seized

 

Varying amounts of miscellaneous drugs, such as marijuana, methamphetamine, and other controlled substances

 

1 pound 9 ounces of cocaine

 

The above drugs have a street value of $44,000

 

Several active meth labs, precursors and/or possession of methamphetamine involved

Communications Division (E-911):

29,615 Calls for Services received in 2009, slightly down from 29,940 in 2008.

 

17,326 Emergency Calls received via 911, both wireless and line phones.

 

The Communications Center is staffed by 10 full-time and 9 part-time employees.

 

Also within the Communications Center is the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) which is staffed 24/7 by Parkview Health Systems personnel. In addition to dispatching Noble County EMS ambulances, all requests for and the dispatching of LaGrange County EMS and Parkview’s Critical Care / Neo-Natal transport units based in Allen County are now conducted through the EMS dispatch within the Noble County Communications Center.

Courthouse Security:

Security for the Courthouse is provided by Officer Justin Stump and Officer Rick Anderson. In 2009, the following activity was reported:

Number of persons entering the Courthouse through security: 99,400.

 

Number of persons taken into custody directly from a court proceeding: 108.

 

Number of persons taken into custody on warrants: 64.

Jail Division:

In 2009, a total of 22 inmates participated in the Work Release Program and generated $46,434.00 for the County General Fund.

 

The Work Release Maintenance Fund collected $4,310.00. The ending balance in the Maintenance Fund is $16,093.81.

 

2,588 inmates were booked into the facility during 2009.

 

Video conferencing was utilized 1,124 times by the court system.

 

2,730 inmates were moved by ground transportation outside of the facility for various reasons such as court appearances, medical and dental appointments, and transfers to and from other correctional facilities, etc.

 

82,897+ miles were driven by three (3) Transport Officers directly responsible for inmate movements.

 

28 inmates, wanted on Noble County felony charges, were extradited back from various locations throughout the continental United States at an approximate cost of $16,303.66.

 

Through the housing of offenders sentenced to the Indiana Department of Correction, a total of $798,980.00 was billed in 2009 for DOC housing. A total of $726,390.00 was actually receipted (which includes some months billed in 2008 and 2009) for housing and was deposited into the County General Fund. In addition, $285,180.00 has been billed for housing in 2009, but remained outstanding from the DOC as of December 2009.

 

Medical co-pay for inmates’ medical accounted for $10,036.06 being returned to the County General Fund as a reimbursement to the jail’s medical budget. Qualifying DOC medical and dental charges continue to be billed direct to DOC which relieves some of the burden to the medical line item.

Annual Financial Summary:

The 2009 combined budgets of the Sheriff’s Department, Jail Division, Work Release and Misdemeanant Fund were $3,343,158.00. Budget controls resulted in $165,400.61 being unused and returned to the County General Fund.

 

At the close of the year, the total amount of monies generated through Work Release, inmate housing, medical reimbursement, budgetary controls and other fees amounted to approximately $972,136.19 being deposited back into the County General Fund.

 

During my tenure as Sheriff, the dedicated and conscientious effort of each department member has resulted in a seven-year total of $6,501,224.79 being deposited back into the County General Fund to offset the operating expenses of the Sheriff’s Department.

 

In closing, I hope that the information contained in this annual report will be informative and useful.