Boasting 20 years of law enforcement experience and the endorsement of the retiring seven-term sheriff, Doug Seifert is running to lead the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office on a platform of improving hiring efforts, better communicating with residents and building a coalition with other local leaders.
“I have worked on the road north of the Broad and south of the Broad; I went and talked to the men and women that I work with, and I listened to (their feedback),” Seifert told The Island Packet in a sit-down interview last week. “It’s all small stuff that I see, and it gave me more of an understanding about how everything worked.”
Seifert had his start in civic service as a town councilman for North Bend, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, before moving to South Carolina and joining the sheriff’s office in 2006 as a patrol deputy…