Pickaway County Sheriff's Office

Sheriff: Dwight E. Radcliff:

Your Sheriff’s Office seeks to provide a full range of courteous and professional law enforcement services to the citizens of Pickaway County. Our two most important assets are our work force, and the support of our fine citizens. We strive to promote employee development through continual training and work to earn the respect of our citizens. With pride we approach our mission, which includes.

» Protecting Life and Property

» Preventing and Solving Crime

» Serving Criminal and Civil Court Process

» Providing Courtroom Security

» Operating an Adult Detention Facility

» Responding to all Citizen’s Request for Assistance

Nixle Alert System:

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Weather Alert Monitor:

The Sheriff of a county may declare a snow emergency and temporarily close county and township roads within his jurisdiction for the preservation of public peace.The snow emergency will be classified in one of four levels below.The current level, if any will be POSTED on our main page.This is a real-time meter that will change when snow emergency levels occur.Along with the alert system comes with a local weather alert detail.Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twiiter, or RSS Feed to get important “Pickaway County Snow Emergency Alert Information”.The Weather Channel: View Weather

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Internet Crimes Against Children:

Shaq Shield is a free iPhone app that provides parents with the tools and knowledge they need to protect their children from online predators. Features of the app include: A Sex Offender Registry search Internet safety tips Glossary of Internet terminology Lingo used by children online Pledges by parents and children for shared internet responsibility Guard your children from online predators. Download Shaq Shield from the iTunes App Store today. Source: http://www.ohioicac.org/shaqShield.aspx

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Crime Reports:

Citizens now have free access to official, timely crime data through the CrimeReports website and iPhone app. Have you ever seen flashing blue lights in your neighborhood and wanted to know what was going on? Do you want to find out how safe your neighborhood really is? Now you can, through a new partnership between Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office and CrimeReports, creators of the National Crime Map. Crime Reports Page

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Project LifeSaver:

The Local Project Lifesaver Program was established in January of 2008, as a joint partnership between the Pickaway County Commission on Aging and the Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office.Through the efforts of Sue Frey, Executive Director of the Pickaway County Senior Center and supported by Sheriff Dwight E. Radcliff a partnership was established.

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SentryKids Child ID:

The Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office offers (Identification Cards) for the families of Pickaway County. This program is a free service we offer to help better serve and protect our loved ones.Get an ID of your child to have on hand to produce to local authorities in a unfortunate event of a child that may become missing.

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D.A.R.E. Program:

The Pickaway county D.A.R.E. (Drug abuse resistance education) program was established in August of 1990. ” At that time the program was 17 weeks long and was taught in the 6th grade in all four school” districts in Pickaway County.The D.A.R.E. officer at that time was Harold Hopkins, who along with Sheriff Dwight Radcliff, and former County Commissioner Ruth Neff, established funding for the program and set up contracts with the schools to get the D.A.R.E. program started.

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Click it or Ticket:

Overview – Seat belts are the most effective safety feature available in vehicles today; still nearly one in five Americans fail to regularly wear a seat belt when driving or riding in a motor vehicle. The effectiveness is indisputable. In 2008 alone, seat belts saved 13,250 lives nationwide.

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Safe Communities Drive Sober:

It lasts only two and a half weeks in summer. Yet the impact of the national crackdown on impaired driving extends far beyond Labor Day. Research shows high-visibility enforcement works. Stepping up enforcement will get more impaired drivers off the street and that adds up to more lives saved.Are you willing to make the crackdown count in your community?

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