Welcome to the Walker County Sheriff’s Office web site! On behalf of the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, I am pleased to present our official web page. In these fast paced days of change, we consider this our latest effort to keep up with new and improved technology. We have attempted to feature many different areas of the Sheriff’s Office. As you explore our site, it is our sincere wish that we will be able to provide you with answers to frequently asked questions or contact information for our employees, as well as other agencies and offices. I was elected to the Office of Sheriff in November of 1996, and took office in January 1997. I am currently serving my fourth term. It is my desire, and the desire of all the men and women at the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, to promote public safety and to enhance the quality of life for all citizens of Walker County. Thank you for visiting our site; I hope you’ll come back often. Sheriff Steve Wilson
Thomas Isaac Morris graduated from Georgia Northwestern Technical College Law Enforcement Academy in Calhoun, Georgia, on December 8, 2011. Morris has been assigned to the Road Patrol Division with the Walker County Sheriff’s Office.
Congratulating Morris is Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson (left) and Morris.
Walker County Sheriff’s Department recently partnered with BAIR Analytics Inc. to provide a new public crime mapping website called RAIDS Online (www.raidsonline.com) to make it easier for Walker County citizens to keep track of crime in their area.
RAIDS Online maps and analyzes crime data, alerts Walker County citizens about crimes in their area, and allows the Walker County Sheriff’s Department to quickly alert the public about crimes as they occur. Citizens can easily move between the map, data grid and analytics to learn about the crime that concerns them the most.
BAIR offers RAIDS Online as a free service to any law enforcement agency who wishes to participate. At present, most agencies spend thousands of dollars annually to provide even the most basic crime map to their community. The Walker County Sheriff’s Department is providing this service to the public at absolutely no cost to the department. “We wanted to do something to help law enforcement in these tough economic times. We consider this a basic service that we are more than happy to provide to the public and our law enforcement friends,” says company founder, Sean Bair, a former police officer and crime analyst.
“Our first goal for RAIDS Online is to offer an economical way for law enforcement agencies to share information with the public they serve,” says Bair. “Our second goal is to provide citizens a way to get information about crime in their community so that they can be better informed. Having an awareness of the true nature and volume of crime in one’s community is the first step to its prevention and suppression. Both goals foster Community Policing, which is something we strongly believe in.”
How it works
RAIDS Online syncs with Walker County Sheriff’s Department’s records system to automatically upload crime information and keep it updated on the map, a big plus for community members.
Mapping features
RAIDS Online uses Google Maps to display the location and basic information for crimes in any area of interest to the user. RAIDS Online’s vibrant colored maps, icons and symbols work together to deliver easy-to-read crime information at all zoom levels, from a national level down to the citizen’s neighborhood.
Analytic features
Walker County citizens can use RAIDS Online to find patterns and trends of crimes in their community – or even across the nation. Graphs automatically update based on the data that is displayed on the map, giving the user full control over what data is analyzed. Citizens who use RAIDS Online to become aware of crime trends can make more informed decisions regarding where they live, shop, play, send their kids to school and other important choices regarding their personal safety.
Email Reports of Recent Crime Activity
Walker County citizens can sign up for neighborhood crime alerts to receive daily, weekly or monthly emails with a breakdown of crimes in their area.
Anyone can visit Walker County’s crime map at
Public’s Help Needed With Solving an Attempted Robbery
A white male attempted to rob the Mapco at Hwy 27 and Hwy 95 on 11/02/2011 At 1 A.M.
The suspect asked for the cash from the register. There was no weapon produced.
The white male is described as 5’10” 170 LBS. He has brown hair, a prominent nose, and appears to be late twenties to early thirties. He is described as having a “Country “ speech pattern. He was wearing glasses, a black hoodie type shirt, a black doo rag or skull cap, slightly baggie blue jeans, running shoes, and fingerless gloves.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Walker County Sheriff’s Office at 706-638-1909.
You may submit an anonymous tip at www.walkerso.com.
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Public’s Help Needed With Solving a Flintstone Business Burglary A white male driving a white minivan forced his way into the Flintstone Food Market around 3:30 AM Sunday morning, October 30th, by throwing a large rock through the business front window, according to Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson. Once the suspect was inside the store, he loaded a 55 gallon trash can with 74 cartons of cigarettes, valued at $3,053. A motorist passing by spotted the activity at the store and called 911. The suspect and white minivan left the store traveling north on Chattanooga Valley Road. The white male is described as tall and slender. The white van is believed to be an older model. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call the Walker County Sheriff’s Office at 706-638-1909. You may submit an anonymous tip at www.walkerso.com. |
Findings Released in Deputy Dismissal
On October 8, 2011, Walker County Deputy Gaylon Redwine resigned employment in lieu of termination after an internal investigation revealed that he had engaged in inappropriate conduct that violated Sheriff’s Office policy.
Today, the Walker County Sheriff’s Office released information regarding the conduct that resulted in the resignation of Deputy Redwine.
a) On or about April 2010, he kissed a fifteen (15) year old female in Walker County, Georgia.
b) During the summer of 2010, he had sexual relations with a sixteen (16) year old female in Walker County, Georgia. This is the same female referred to in (a) above.
c) In July 2011, he kissed a fourteen (14) year old female. This act occurred in Panama City Beach, Florida.
The acts of misconduct in Walker County have been presented to the District Attorney’s Office. Their findings are:
a) The age of consent in the State of Georgia is sixteen years for sexual relations. Therefore, since the acts were consensual, Mr. Redwine cannot be prosecuted for sexual acts with the sixteen year old.
b) Regarding the kissing of the fifteen year old, although morally questionable, it would not by itself be conduct which could be prosecuted.
The Panama City Beach Police Department has declined to prosecute Redwine with regard to the act of kissing a fourteen year old.
As a result of the internal investigation, Redwine was found to have violated Walker County Sheriff’s Office departmental Policy and Procedure 2.06 “All crimes of a sexual nature or crimes involving moral turpitude,” which is punishable by termination.
The internal investigation also determined that Redwine was not on duty when any of the acts of misconduct occurred.
On October 18, 2011, Georgia P.O.S.T. was provided a complete investigative report.
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