A Quarter Million Dollars May Give Us Kinder, Gentler Sheriff’s Office

At the Thursday, May 15 meeting of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the board plans to approve a $256,288 contract with the purpose of providing de-escalation training to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office.

For the sheriff’s deputies, the training will be conducted by Crisis Consulting Group – a provider that’s approved by the US Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.

This two-year initiative will include live, in-person instruction for all sworn deputies as well as for the detention officers in the county’s jails in Greensboro and High Point…

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