CARROLL COUNTY TO SWEAR IN 58TH SHERIFF FIRST NEW SHERIFF IN
16 YEARS
December 2, 2014 – Retrieved February 2, 2015
I retrieved this when I was researching and writing my article
for The Baltimore Sun: Carroll
County's new leaders share more than priority of public safety By Kevin Dayhoff
February 7, 2015 in The Baltimore Sun
Westminster – Carroll County will swear in its 58th Sheriff
during an inauguration ceremony at Carroll Community College’s Scott Auditorium
on Tuesday, Dec 2nd. Clerk of the
Circuit Court, Donald Sealing, will swear in retired Maryland State Police Captain
Jim DeWees as the first new Sheriff of Carroll County in 16 years. Sheriff DeWees won both contested primary and
general elections by overwhelming margins to become Sheriff. He takes over for retiring Sheriff Kenneth
Tregoning who was first elected to office in 1998. Sheriff Tregoning served four consecutive
terms and did not seek re-election for a fifth.
Sheriff DeWees was raised in Carroll County and is a 1988
graduate of South Carroll High School in Winfield, Maryland. He holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in
Criminal Justice from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland and
a Masters of Arts degree in Human Resource Development from Seton Hall
University in Trenton, New Jersey.
Sheriff DeWees is also a graduate of the Northwestern University School
of Police Staff and Command.
Sheriff DeWees is married with three children who attend
Carroll County Public Schools. His wife
of 16 years, Heather, is a teacher for Carroll County Public Schools and the
girls’ varsity basketball coach at Manchester Valley High School. Sheriff DeWees is the second youngest of the
six children of Joan and the late Thomas DeWees of Thurmont, Maryland.
Sheriff DeWees retired as a Captain from the Maryland State
Police. His career with the Maryland
State Police started after high school when he became a cadet at the age of
18. Sheriff DeWees rose through the
ranks of the Maryland State Police and held numerous operational and command
assignments within the organization.
Sheriff DeWees spent the majority of his career as a patrol and
investigative trooper, supervisor and barrack commander in Carroll County,
assigned to the Westminster Barrack.
Sheriff DeWees was commander of both the Westminster and Golden Ring
Barracks, Operations Commander for the Washington Metropolitan Area and ended
his 25-year career as the Special Operations Division Commander, overseeing
Emergency Operations, K9, S.T.A.T.E. Team and the Motor Unit. He also served as an instructor at the State
Police Academy. For most of his career,
Sheriff DeWees served as an operator, team leader and commander of the Maryland
State Police SWAT Team known as S.T.A.T.E.
In 1998, Sheriff DeWees was awarded the Governor’s Citation
of Valor after he shot the gun out of a suicidal man’s hand, ending a two-hour
standoff in Keymar, Maryland. He is also
a recipient of the Superintendent’s Citation of Valor for his role in ending
two separate armed standoffs in 2000 and 2002.
Sheriff DeWees has received numerous awards for excellence in
investigations and leadership.
Sheriff DeWees brings a diverse background of law
enforcement experience and leadership to the Carroll County Sheriff’s
Office. Continuing a career of public
service, Sheriff DeWees now leads 260 dedicated employees who staff a full
service law enforcement agency providing road patrol and criminal investigative
services, a detention center, and courthouse security. Sheriff DeWees considers it one of the
highest honors of his career to serve the citizens of Carroll County as their
Sheriff.
DeWees appointed Eldersburg resident Larry Suther as Chief
Deputy of the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office.
Suther is a retired major from the Baltimore County Police Department
where he spent 38 years working his way through the ranks from cadet to major
and retiring as commander of the Special Operations Division. Suther will hold the rank of Colonel and
oversee the operations for the Office.
Colonel Suther has extensive operational, tactical and investigative
experience. Colonel Suther holds a
Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Baltimore and is a graduate
of the FBI National Academy.
DeWees also appointed Manchester resident Vicky McDonold as
Director of the Management Services Bureau.
Director McDonold comes to the Sheriff’s Office from the private sector
where she was a project manager for Automatic Data Processing (ADP) in Owings
Mills. McDonold holds a Bachelor of
Science Degree from Towson University in finance and a Master’s Degree from
University of Maryland University College in Technology Management.
December 2, 2014 Jim DeWees Carroll County MD 58th
Sheriff
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Carroll
County's new leaders share more than priority of public safety By Kevin Dayhoff
February 7, 2015 in The Baltimore Sun
The close working relationship between newly-elected sheriff
and state’s attorney appreciated.
By Kevin E. Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com
Sunday, February 8, 2015
The Carroll County sheriff’s office has been a whirlwind of
activity ever since retired Maryland State Police Captain Jim DeWees took
office last December 2 as Carroll County’s 58th sheriff.
DeWees takes office at a time of great changes in law
enforcement. Not to be overlooked is the heightened scrutiny – and danger – in
which law enforcement officers find themselves these days.
Among the many new approaches initiated recently; the
sheriff’s office has announced a long over-due initiative to equalize the due
process, retirement and compensation disparities between the sheriff’s deputies
who work the county roads in a law enforcement and investigations capacity with
that of the men and women who work as correctional officers in the county
detention facility.
Then, just days later, the sheriff’s office announced the
appointment of an additional investigator to the county’s drug task force to
help forcefully address the growing alarm in the community over the growing
abuse of prescription drugs and heroin.
DeWees has also been working closely with the county’s new
Carroll County state’s attorney, Brian DeLeonardo, in a number of areas;
including the recent announcement of heightening the coordination between
prosecutors and local police officers and deputies who work the streets.
Both DeWees and DeLeonardo emphasized their fathers in their
respective oath of office ceremonies. Both dads served in the Vietnam War in
the 1960s and early 1970s. This is interesting since arguably the last sea
change in approach to law enforcement in the community took place in the 1960s.
Read more: @CCSheriffMD
@BDeLeonardo
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