Emergency Services
Colquitt County E-911 Center 911( emergency) Non-emergency number:( 229) 616-7470 Director: Theresa Warburg, tewarburg @ ccboc. com
The 911 Center, which opened in 1998, is responsible for answering emergency and non emergency calls to all of Colquitt County’ s agencies, including Colquitt County EMS, Search and Rescue, city and county fire departments, the Moultrie Police Department, Colquitt County Sheriff’ s Office, Berlin Police Department, Doerun Police Department and Norman Park Police Department.
Theresa Warburg was named director in 2006. There are 21 people staffed at the center. Each shift consists of four communications officers and one parttime employee on each rotation. A program, Computer Aided Dispatch( CAD), allows dispatchers to receive and dispatch calls faster. Priority calls are dispatched within one minute and other calls have a two-minute time limit The center averages 216 calls for service a day. The majority of cell phone calls received by the center are now able to be traced to the caller’ s location.
Colquitt County Sheriff’ s Office Sheriff Rod Howell:( 229) 616-7430 Chief Deputy: Capt. Mike Murfin Business Office: Sgt. Becky Perry
The Colquitt County Sheriff’ s Office is located at 200 Veterans Parkway North and has 106 employees. 61 of the employees are sworn officers with arrest powers with the balance of 45 being jail officers and clerical
The Moultrie Rotary Club saluted Officers of the Year from local law enforcement agencies in January 2024. From left are Officer Jaharr Antwaun Shivers of the Colquitt County Prison, GBI Special Agent in Charge Wes Horne, TFCI Charles Derrick Pitts of the state Department of Public Safety, Game Warden Keith Boatwright of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Sgt. Becky Perry of the Colquitt County Sheriff’ s Office, CSOII Darryl Stewart of the Georgia Department of Community Supervision, Moultrie Police Sgt. Christopher Mitchell and Norman Park Police Officer Jody Jordan. Lt. Evan Garrick was named Officer of the Year for the Berlin Police Department but was not present for the photo.
personnel. Sheriff Rod Howell was elected and took office Jan. 1, 2017. Howell has had a 20-plus-year career in law enforcement with Colquitt County. Uniform Division: Lt. Josh Perry oversees the uniform patrol officers. The Uniform Division patrols approximately 550 square miles with Colquitt County. Courtroom functions: Cap. Nathaniel French School resource program: Maj. Todd Myrick Criminal Investigations Division / Training and continuing education: Lt. Ronald Jordan Chief jailer: Lt. Randy Stephens Drug Enforcement Team: Lt. Justin Searcy
Colquitt County Sheriff Rod Howell, left, and Sean Ladson, Moultrie’ s police chief at the time, discuss a pair of shooting incidents in a Facebook video in September 2023. Ladson later left the police department and was replaced by Chief Chad Castleberry.
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