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Departmental Mission: The Lea County Sheriff's Department serves all residents of Lea County, providing law enforcement, civil services, court services, and crime prevention to protect life and property. Additionally, the Sheriff's Department safeguards the rights of all people, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and the State of New Mexico.
Departmental Goals: The goal of the Sheriff's Department is to meet it's responsibilities to the citizens of Lea County by providing the best professional law enforcement, public safety, and welfare services attainable by managing the Department's resources in the most effective and efficient manner possible.
Departmental Strategy: To achieve success, the Department must win and retain the confidence and respect of the citizens it serves. This can be accomplished only by constant and earnest endeavor on the part of all personnel to perform their duties in efficient, honest, businesslike and professional manner, and by exemplary conduct, to cultivate in the public mind the realization that the Sheriff's Department is a vital requisite to public well-being. The Sheriff's Department consists of 43 full-time commissioned personnel with full police powers, 11 in Communications, 10 part-time deputies, and 3 civilian personnel, including a civil clerk, records clerk, and administrative secretary.
Departmental Objectives:
Training - To continue to provide a comprehensive level of both basic and advanced police training for all personnel. Expected results include more effective and reliable personnel, greatly reduced liability, increased morale, and compliance with state mandated training requirements.
Progressive, pro-active, methods and techniques - To participate in a variety of law enforcement programs that provide increased patrols, saturations, target areas and more "pro-active" and "preventative" techniques to compliment the specialized units such as DWI, Drug Interdiction, and K-9 to combat the criminal element.
Implementation and utilization of law enforcement technology - To implement as much available technology as can be afforded. This will allow more effective use of time and personnel, and aid in increasing the clearance rate of cases, and do so in a timelier manner.
Effective Utilization of Resources - To provide effective police services to all areas of the County. To participate in special programs such as Operation DWI, Operation "Pump Jack" (to reduce oilfield thefts and vandalism), Operation "Wolf pack" (to target underage drinking and partying in rural areas of the county), Operation "Cops-in-Shop" (to target the underage purchase of alcohol and shoplifting), as well as other programs that are developed and implemented throughout the year. The expected result is a decrease and initial increase in DWI arrests, but a long-term reduction in DWI incidents, reduced accidents, injuries and fatalities, and reduced loss of property, vandalism, and damage.