2025 WCSO Annual Report - Flipbook - Page 11
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WASHINGTON COUNTY
No Matter Where You Live, We Serve You
Public safety looks different across Washington County.
Safety is not built in isolation. It is built through
It means responding to emergencies in growing urban
partnerships — with cities, courts, schools, service
neighborhoods, providing consistent patrol services
providers, and community organizations — and
in unincorporated areas, supporting people in crisis,
through trust earned over time. WCSO’s work extends
operating the county’s only jail, and ensuring the
beyond enforcement to include prevention, crisis
justice system functions safely and fairly. It also means
response, and community engagement, recognizing
showing up — day after day — for a community that
long-term safety depends on strong relationships and
continues to grow and evolve.
shared responsibility.
The Washington County Sheriff’s Office serves every
Across all of our services, we are guided by a
corner of the county and every person who calls for
commitment to fairness, accountability, and service.
help. Our deputies, professional staff, and volunteers
We invest in training, wellness, and modern tools so
respond to a wide range of needs, often in complex
our workforce is prepared to respond effectively and
and high-pressure situations. Whether the call
compassionately. We adapt as community needs
involves a medical or mental health crisis, a crime in
change, while remaining grounded in the values that
progress, a lost hiker, court security, or jail operations,
have guided this office for generations.
our approach remains the same: professionalism,
respect, and care.
