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The Wythe County Sheriff’s Office believes it is important to educate,
inform and assist the citizens with its various programs. With this in mind,
the Wythe County Sheriff’s Office is active in contributing available
resources and services to the citizens of the community. The Sheriff's Office
is involved in the community watch, youth identification, fingerprint, seminars
about con-artists, rip-off schemes, and the distribution of material to the
public on improving security in the home and business. Also, classes on self-defense
and firearms safety are offered to female residents.
After taking office in 1999, Sheriff Osborne began this program to protect citizens from fraudulent door to door sales.
Victim/Witness Program was established in 1997 from a fully funded grant from the Department of Criminal Justice Service. This program, which is a unit within the Sheriff’s Office, is designed to ensure victims and witnesses of crime receive fair and compassionate treatment while participating in the criminal justice system. Victims and witnesses play many roles in the prosecution of criminals. Through this valuable program, we are able to provide victims and witnesses with the rights that they are entitled to.
The Wythe County Sheriff’s Office has three full time school resource
officers as well as two full time police officers which are allocated to the three
local high schools. These stationed officers at our local schools provide safety
and security, deter crime, investigate criminal activity that occurs on school property.
They also educate faculty and staff on the rights and responsibilities of students.
Through working closely with principals and support personnel, the officers serve
as role models, mentors, sources of information for problems occurring inside and
outside the schools. These officers continue to provide the safe and secure learning
environments that Wythe County has traditionally provided its students.
This program is designed to educate Virginia Teens as members of the community about
the law and their rights and responsibilities. School resource officers are trained to
instruct this self-contained curriculum, Class Action – Virginia Teens and the Law,
through a series of four or five 50 minute classes in addition to the existing curriculum
that is normally being taught. The classes cover topics such as the juvenile justice system,
crimes against persons and property, drug and weapon offenses and Virginia motor vehicle laws.
