17,604
Calls dispatched from communications to the Sheriff’s Office in 2009.
This is a 25.44% increase over the number of calls dispatched in 2006.
The average number of calls dispatched to the Sheriff’s Office per day is 48.
The average number of patrol officers answering calls per day is 4
The total number of adults taken into physical custody in 2009 is 1796
This is an average of 4.9 persons arrested per day.
Juvenile information is not included.
The total number of citations issued in 2009 is 810
Criminal Processes
The Sheriff is the only office in the state of North Carolina that is required by law to serve criminal and court papers such as warrants, magistrate’s orders, orders for arrest, etc… Police Departments, Highway Patrol and State Law Enforcement agencies are not required to serve these papers, but may if they choose to do so. An example of this is if Mocksville Police have a warrant, but cannot locate the person that paper will come to the Sheriff to serve, or if a person violates probation and an arrest order is issued it comes to the Sheriff and not Probation.
The total number of criminal processes issued in Davie County in 2009 3,578
There is a backlog of unserved criminal processes in the clerk’s office of Davie County. The majority of these papers were returned as unserved before 2007. For example in 2009 there are only 12 unserved papers in the clerk’s office. There are 4,577 unserved papers that the Sheriff is required to attempt to serve.
Detention
During 2006 the Detention Center averaged admitting 84.6 persons per month.
During 2009 The Detention Center averaged admitting 117.6 persons per month.
During January 2010 The Detention Center had 68 inmates on the first day of the month. They admitted 113 persons and released 122 persons. The average daily inmate count for the month was 63.
The average number of employees handling all releases, intakes, showers, feeding, and cleaning of the Detention Center is 4
Civil Division
This is another area of service that the Sheriff is required by law to provide to the County. There are no other persons required to provide these services. The Sheriff and County are subject to penalties for failure to provide these services in the proper way.
The following shows the volume of civil papers that the Sheriff is responsible for and the increases that are happening due to growth in the County.
Civil papers 2006 2009 % Increase/Decrease
Civil Process Served 702 1358 93.45% increase
Civil Executions 330 1000 203% increase
Concealed Gun Permits 71 342 381.69% increase
County Money collected $166,788.00 $482,311.00 189% increase
Criminal Information
The average clearance rate of violent crimes for the state of North Carolina is 54.4%. The Davie County Sheriff’s Office cleared 90% of all violent crimes.
The average Clearance rate of property crimes for the state of North Carolina is 23.3%. The Davie County Sheriff’s Office cleared 34.9% of all property crimes.
There was $1,539,926 dollars worth of property stolen in 2009. The Sheriff’s Office recovered $79,013 dollars worth of property.
A sample of crimes investigated in 2009.
Drug crimes 391
Crimes against person 626
Property Crimes 973
Fraud 119
Sex Crimes 46
Other 615
DRUGS
There was no dedicated Narcotics Unit in the Sheriff’s Office before 2007. A narcotics unit was started in 2007 and has participated in the removal of 27 million dollars worth of street drugs. The narcotics unit has received approximately 171,145 dollars in seized money and 95,000 dollars worth of seized property. The Davie County Sheriff’s Office has charged 28 persons with Federal drug crimes in the past two years. They received more than 201 years in prison.
General Facts
Davie County as a whole grew 17.6% from 2000 to 2008. Compared to:
Rowan County 6.8% growth
Davidson County 7.4% growth
Yadkin County 4.4% growth
Forsyth County 12.14% growth
Davie County average growth per year is 2.2%
Comparison Data
The statistics below compare the patrol divisions of the Sheriff and the Mocksville Police Department. These are the Divisions that are the front line and answer the calls.
DCSO Mocksville Police
Total Calls 17,604 7,297
Area Covered in Square miles 264 4
Officers assigned to patrol duties 21 16
Population served 42,000 4,200
Starting salary 28,677 30,500
Mocksville has 1 patrol officer per 262 persons.
Cooleemee has 4 officers for a population of 973 persons 1 officer for every 243 persons.
The Sheriff’s Office has 1 patrol officer per 1,952 people.
The Mocksville Police Department has 3 full time Detectives while the Sheriff has only 6 Detectives.
The state average for sworn Officers per 1000 population for a Sheriff’s Office is 1.7.
The Davie County Sheriff’s office is 1.3 per 1000. This is the total number of sworn officers. The Sheriff would have to hire 22 officers just to meet the state average.
Budget Data
The Sheriff’s office has two budgets that it actually works from. One budget is for the enforcement side and one is for Detention Services. The budget year runs from July to June.
Sheriff Detention Combined
2006-07 2,580,320 1,441,901 4,022,221
2007-08 3,333,896 1,517,175 4,851,071
2008-09 3,532,974 1,606,723 5,139,697
2009-10* 3,666,475 1,804,971 5,471,446
2010-11** 3,894,611 1,796,080 5,690,691
* Current Budget Year. Employees did not receive cost of living increase
** Requested Budget, not approved. County did not allow cost of living increases to be
Figured by Departments.
It should be noted that these are the budgets that the Sheriff Requested. The County will show a revised budget that is higher. These are funds that the County adds during a budget year that the Sheriff has no control over. Examples- Insurance payments, Car sales, Asset forfeiture use, etc…
Asset forfeiture money used by the sheriff. This is not taxpayer money and supplements our budget.
2007-08 13,000
2008-09 45,000
2009-10 95,000
Revenues Taken in by the Sheriff’s Office. These are service fees, court fees, gun permits, etc…
2006-07 263,778
2007-08 423,000
2008-09 484,571
2009-10 273,740 This is through the 7th month of the budget year.
During the years 2000 through 2006 the Sheriff’s Office returned to the County 1,805,700. This money came from funds approved for the Sheriff to spend which were not spent. This helped to create a situation where the Sheriff’s Office was using aged and obsolete equipment while being severely understaffed.
During the years 2007 through 2010 the Sheriff’s County Commissioner approved budget increased 1,449,225. That increase is broken down in the following.
Year Approved Spending Forfeiture Revenue increase Tax Cost
07-08 4,851,071 4,927,420 13,000 159,222 656,628
08-09 5,139,697 5,150,838 45,000 61,571 182,055
09-10 Current Budget Total figures not yet available
These figures show the approved budgets and actual spending for the past two full years. There was an 828,850 increase in 07-08 over 06-07. If you subtract the amount of forfeited money and the increase in revenues over the previous year you get the actual increase to the Sheriff in tax funds for each year.
School Assistance
The Sheriff’s Office provides four full time and one part time school resource officers to the school system. The Dare Officer is also provided to the school system. Most North Carolina school systems reimburse the Sheriff for the cost of officers and equipment. The Davie County School system only reimburses the Sheriff a set amount. This amount was 39,081 in the 2008-09 budget year. This does not cover the salary and benefits cost of an officer. The total cost of salary and benefits for these officers that is not paid for by the school system, but comes directly out of the Sheriff’s Office budget is 213, 048.
The lowest estimated equipment cost for an officer is 15,000. There are six officers provided to the school system. It costs the Sheriff approximately 90,000 to equip these officers. The funds come directly out of the Sheriff’s Office budget and are not reimbursed by the school system.
The Information in this document came from the following sources.
Davie County Sheriff Records
Davie County Economic Development Commission
Davie County Finance Office
NC SBI