The numbers are in the sheriff’s 2020 summary
If you are a numbers junkie, you can find them in the 2020 activity summary of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office. Among the accomplishments during a year consumed mostly by the world pandemic, Sheriff Crenshaw says were a unity walk aimed at better relations with county resident and the hiring of a cultural diversity director. To request service the telephone, mainly the cell phone, was the way Oconeeans for the most part contacted the office. The 9-1-1 center fielded nearly 180 thousand calls. Of those, 43 thousand were emergency calls. The sheriff’s narcotics unit in 2020 seized drugs considered to have been worth $3.2 million dollars in the illegal trade market. Uniformed officers arrested 1,276 persons in Oconee County during the 12-month period. In 2020, sheriff’s officers engaged in 42 vehicle pursuits. The mode of transportation that provided most successful in eluding apprehension was the motorcycle.