The Greene County Sheriff’s office recently released its statistics from 2014.

Sheriff Steve Haupert says they responded to 2,080 calls for service throughout the county, which is about 5.69 calls per day.  Haupert adds that 260 calls-or 12.5%-were animal-related.  Since they hired a part-time animal control person, more people have been following animal laws of their respective towns.

“I have found it very beneficial and basically it’s a teaching tool for those in the towns that, hey, we do have to register our dog and they have to be on a leash, they can’t run at large.  And so it was kind of a learning experience.”

The Sheriff’s office has 28E agreements with six towns in which they are the primary law enforcement agency.  Of the 2,080 calls, 828 were in each of the contracted towns.  44% were in Grand Junction, 23.2% were in Scranton, next was Churdan with 16.9%, Rippey made up 7%, Paton was 6.2% and Dana was at 2.7%.

As for the county jail, there were increases in 2014.  Total number of inmates was up eight from 2013 to 360 in 2014.  There was a dramatic increase in the number of hours that the inmates served.  In 2014, there was a total of 59,810 hours compared to 41,188 hours in 2013.  Haupert notes that most of the increase is from individuals who were probation violators.  The total number of meals also increased from 4,701 in 2013 to 6,035 in 2014.

Finally, the K-9 statistics were also released for 2014.  K-9 Leo helped to recover $35,830 in estimated street value of drugs.  He helped seize over 14 pounds of marijuana, 5.5 ounces of meth and three grams of cocaine.  Leo has been involved in 87 vehicle searches and the Sheriff’s office has used the K-9 for tracking five individuals or fleeing criminals.