Divisions – Elbert County Sheriff's Office

Patrol Division

The Patrol Division is the most visible and recognizable unit of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office, operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Patrol deputies are responsible for responding to emergency and non-emergency calls, serving civil papers, serving warrants, arresting and transporting offenders. They are first responders who provide proactive community and neighborhood patrols, enforce local, state, and federal laws, traffic laws, and report offenses. Patrol is the backbone of any sheriff's office. Patrol performs initial investigations into offenses, prevents, and deters criminal activity through their presence.

Administration

Administrative personnel are the background support for the overall operations of the Sheriff's Office. They are the first contact when you visit the Sheriff's Administrative offices. They can answer questions or direct you to the best source to get your answers.

Criminal Investigations Division

Criminal Investigations Division (CID) investigates crimes against property, which includes such acts as burglary, auto theft, investigate crimes against persons such as armed robberies, murder, aggravated assault, rape, and family violence. Investigators are on-call to respond to serious crime incidents.

Court

The primary responsibility of this division is to ensure the safety and security of the Elbert County Complex, Courthouse, and the people who appear and work in it. Specifically, this includes maintaining the safe environment of the various courts (Superior, State, Magistrate, Juvenile and Probate courts) and operating weapons screening systems at the Courthouse entrances.

Detention Center

The Detention Center's function is to receive and process people that are taken into custody. Once a person has been turned over to the jail they are either given an opportunity to post a cash or property bond and be released pending a court hearing or held until the court disposes of their case. Once a person is convicted and sentenced to either county time or state time, they are held until their sentence is served in accordance to law or transferred into a state facility.

The Administrative personnel at answer phones, greet the public, process bonds, schedule transports for inmates to court appearances, medical/dental facilities, and state detention facilities, submit fingerprints, prepare inmate records for court, schedule inmate/attorney consultations and numerous other duties on a daily basis.

The Detention Center has a staff of Jail Administrator Major DreKevious Gibbs, Assistant Jail Administrator Captain Shanon Young, thirty Detention Officers, two Administrative Assistants, two medical, and three dietary personnel. The total bed capacity is 117. The Detention Center houses inmates for Elbert County, Elberton Police Department and other out of county agencies when available.