Making his third bid for sheriff, JoJo Woodward thinks Beaufort County’s law enforcement is in dire need of a culture change after nearly three decades under the same leadership.
“It’s all about solving crimes, community engagements,” Woodward told The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette in a sit-down interview last week. “Where are we going to get (deputies) from? Where are we going to retain folks? You have to have a path for leadership, and I think I can bring that.”
Woodward, 61, joined the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office in 1986 as a patrol deputy and was promoted to captain in 2013, resigning five years later to challenge Sheriff P.J. Tanner for the first time…