The Crisp County Sheriff's Department provides the services of a chaplain on a regular call basis for counseling, consultation, human crisis intervention, critical incident and post-critical incident intervention, and the support and maintenance of an attitude of cooperation and mutual respect between the police department and the community.
Our chaplain, who is ecclesiastically ordained, assist the department's personnel in those areas where he can offer his own expertise. Some of these situations may include:
-being called to the scene of a traumatic incident to provide comfort to victims, families of victims, and officers involved
-notifying next-of-kin in death or serious injury incidents
-offering follow-up assistance to victims of crisis
-offering referral or resource assistance
-counseling individuals and families experiencing stressful, traumatic situations
-training for crisis intervention
-presiding at funerals or other religious services as requested
-visiting sick or injured department employees
-conducting invocations at various department functions
