The Pasco Sheriff’s Office continues to provide the most cost-effective law enforcement services of any Florida agency we have examined, large or small, rural or urban. The above graph shows the top 12 law enforcement agencies in the State, based on the population size of their jurisdictions.
DADE CITY (Sept. 1, 2009) - Pasco County Commissioners approved Sheriff Bob White's 2010 budget submission today that keeps the agency Aviation Unit flying and adds 24 deputies funded by the federal law enforcement stimulus package.
Beginning in December 2008, Pasco Sheriff Bob White directed a reorganization of the agency due to a continuing budgetary shortfall. The focus of the changes were twofold. To increase the number of deputies who are on the street to fight crime, and to lessen the impact of decreased funding that is expected to continue. Local legislators representing Pasco County are in agreement that during challenging economic times, the organizations that are burdened the most are law enforcement and the court system. In total, Sheriff’s White’s reorganization efforts reallocated at least an estimated $750,000, most redistributed to increase front-line law enforcement.
Sheriff Bob White conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, November 13, 2009 to announce the opening of the new C Pod addition of the Land O' Lakes Detention Center. The next morning, the 200-plus inmates housed in the New Port Richey West Jail were transferred to the Land O' Lakes Detention Center.
Pasco Sheriff's deputies delivered 540 food baskets to needy families on Tuesday, Dec. 22, as part of their annual Holiday Food Drive. Food baskets included a frozen turkey and all the trimmings for a complete holiday meal. Social service agencies helped to select the families that received the food baskets.
NEW PORT RICHEY- Pasco Sheriff Bob White today announced the results of a county-wide sweep of street level drug dealers that netted 170 arrests of 62 suspects. Arrests were made on Saturday, Nov. 21, and Monday, Nov. 23.
River Ridge High School students Lauren Mundy (left front) and Taylor Dunphy (behind Lauren) recently collected more than 250 stuffed animals to present to the Pasco Sheriff's Office.
Land O' Lakes - Pasco Sheriff Bob White recently joined his detention deputies to present a number of new inmate labor programs that are being used to save taxpayers' dollars at the Central Detention Center here.
The Pasco Sheriff's Office (PSO) conducted a grand reopening at the Lacoochee Community Center located at 20560 Blanchette Court on Saturday, January 30, 2010.
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