Our Mission
We, the members of the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office, are committed to providing proactive and professional law enforcement services. By employing community-oriented policing principles, we will work with our community to achieve the goal of improving the quality of life within Stephens County. We will diligently strive to respect the ideals of individual rights and human dignity, and we will conduct ourselves in a manner that will enable us to be a law enforcement agency that the citizens of Stephens County can be proud to call their own.
Members of the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office shall function under the acronym:
Responsive: We are committed to being responsive to the needs of our community.
Excellence: We are committed to providing the highest quality of professional law enforcement service to the citizens of Stephens County.
Security: We are committed to keeping our citizens safe and enhancing the quality of life within Stephens County.
Partnership: We are committed to working in partnership with the community to resolve issues relating to public safety.
Ethics: We are committed to upholding the highest of ethical standards, focusing on meeting the needs of each and every citizen, regardless of circumstance.
Community Service: We are committed to being an involved and contributing participant in matters affecting our community.
Trust: We are committed to upholding the trust given us, and the faith put in us, by the citizens of Stephens County.
To these ends, the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office will maintain itself at a peak of optimum preparedness, capable of immediate and appropriate response, and conduct itself in a manner that will reflect the highest and most noble credit upon itself as a servant of honor in the community.
