Content Tagged 'Shelby County Sheriff's Office'

Wednesday, Shelby County Commissioners wanted answers from Sheriff Bill Oldham on deputy escorts for special events on your dime. Watch Video

How would you like to get paid to travel with the Memphis Tigers - go to their home and away games, even their practices? One Shelby County employee is doing just that, and you paid for it. ABC 24's Senior Investigator Jeni Diprizio digs into one deputy's sweet deal. Watch Video

Shelby County Commissioners approved more than $2 million in funding to the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in order to provide resource officers for the unified school system.

The Shelby County Sheriff's Office is looking to take on a new role due to the school merger.

“Like us on Facebook.” That has become a common phrase in modern lexicon, and is now finding its way into a friendly cyber-war among Mid-South law enforcement agencies. Watch Video

One in seven Memphis Police officers were involved in a crash in 2012, the statistic is the same for Shelby County deputies. The crashes cost the tax payers millions of dollars. Watch Video

A Shelby County Sheriff's deputy was involved in a high speed chase that ended up costing the taxpayer thousands. Watch Video

Nearly 2,000 deputy applications are expected this week, the only chance this year to join the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. Watch Video

A major change in Memphis crime fighting is in the works as a group of city police and sheriff's deputies band together to fight a war. For the first time in several years, the area is about to see a metro unit of city and county law enforcement officers whose only purpose will be to break up gangs. Watch Video