The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office relies on several staff members, full-time and part-time, to run its day-to-day operations, but there’s another group the department relies on without receiving a paycheck. The sheriff’s office has nearly 25 reserve deputies donating their time.
Baxter County Chief Deputy Captain Jeff Lewis was a recent guest of the Talk of the Town on KTLO-FM, and he says these individuals, formerly known as auxiliary deputies, are highly-trained and required to meet the same standards set by the state of Arkansas as full-time officers.
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Last year, Baxter County’s reserve deputies donated and volunteered over 6,500 hours of their time to the sheriff’s office. They perform several duties, including prisoner transports and extraditions, patrolling with or under the supervision of full-time deputies, serving as bailiffs in the courtrooms, providing security and crowd control at different public events, assisting with inmate management at the Baxter County Detention Center and managing the weekend community service work program.
Applications are being accepted for the reserve deputy position, and Captain Lewis says the office has a class planned for April. For more information, call the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office at 870-425-7000.
This month, Our Community Cares, sponsored by H&R Block, Pizza Hut, Danny Porter of Century 21 LeMac Realty, Farmers and Merchants Bank, Carl Wayne’s Nurseries and KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot, recognizes the work of reserve deputies in the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office. Learn more at ktlo.com/ourcommunitycares.
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