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PBSO Legoland field trip,Breaking the Cycle of Gang Recruitment

The Palm Beach Sheriff's Office took a group of students from South Grade Elementary School to LEGOLAND Florida Resort for the day. This was the conclusion of a school program where the deputies helped out  the students in their efforts to build Lego cars at school. It is hoped that when the children get older,  there will be positive results from the involvement of law enforcement in their lives.

PBSO Takes Pride in cleaning the Streets of Belle Glade

Operation Clean Streets Belle Glade - City Wide Cleanup PBSO Takes Pride in cleaning the Streets of Belle Glade... Literally! The Community gathered Saturday morning to clean up some areas overwhelmed with litter. Lt. Carn and Mayor Wilson, Belle Glade lead the team to clean the streets. LAST FOUR PHOTOS ARE CLEANED UP AREAS. — in Belle Glade, FL.   [print_gllr id=3190]

PBSO MISSION: Help Pahokee Family In Need.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Corrections Division in collaboration with NOBLE, Leadership Palm Beach County, and Tripp Electric (Ashley Tripp) have collected enough items to furnish the family’s home in Pahokee, FL. The family apartment caught fire on January 2nd and everything was lost due to the fire. There are six children (7 months – 18 years) who resided in that home. We have two truckloads and two vans with furniture, toys, clothing, televisions, and household accessories. The uniformed PBSO...

Deputy Sheriff Brian Fidler was Honored by Governor Rick Scott with the Governor’s Heroism Award

Governor’s Heroism Award is awarded to a recipient must have distinguished himself or herself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity, must have risked his or her life deliberately above and beyond the call of duty while performing duty in his or her respective position, and must have engaged in hazardous or perilous activities to preserve lives with the knowledge that such activities might result in great personal harm. On June 6, 2014, at 2:00 am, D/S Brian Fidler responded to a residential...

CAUGHT ON VIDEO: PBSO Deputies Spread Holiday Joy to Family White Pine Drive, Wellington

D/S Musso and R/DS Flora arranged to present a family on White Pine with a 32” flat screen television, two game systems and approximately 60 video games. The history behind the family is that the mother has stage 4 cancer and her father who resides with them on White Pine died yesterday hours before the presentation. The husband and father of the children works in the cafeteria at Lion Country Safari. This is a prime example of a good transitional family...

The Florida Crime Prevention Association presents a certificate of appreciation to Sheriff Ric Bradshaw

For the past four years the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office has supported the Florida Crime Prevention Association crime prevention training conference. This week long conference is held annually during the third week of October which is also Crime Prevention Month. The Sheriff's Office provides grants from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund to assist with acquiring new and cutting edge training classes that the crime prevention officers attend. Deputy Karl Martin, Region 7 Director of the Florida Crime Prevention Association, presents...

Relay For Life Event

The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Purple and Pink Patrol cars made an appearance at the American Cancer Society's #RelayForLife Event that took place this weekend at the Palm Beach Central High School. Our PBSO K9 Bandit was there as well supporting the event.

PBSO 9-1-1 System – Is one Of The Best Around

Message from Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw: Did you know that more than 650,000 calls are received every year at our 9-1-1 emergency communications system? That’s about 1,800 callers a day requesting medical, fire, police and other emergency services across Palm Beach County. These calls are handled by our staff of nearly 200 emergency call takers and dispatchers. Our Communications Division employees work around the clock, every day of the year, to assist Palm Beach County’s 1.3 million residents --- and everyone...

PBSO Deputies Read a Children’s Safety Book to Wynnebrook Element

Deputies Read a Children’s Safety Book to Wynnebrook Elementary School Children today.PBSO Special Events/Animal Kindness Unit authored a children’s book called “Be a Buddy Not a Bully” and deputies read this book to Kindergarten classes at Wynnebrook Elementary School.The voices of this book: Detective Finicky Finnagan, a yellow lab and Dashing Dory, a Yorkshire terrier both work for PBSO as detectives. Detective Dashing Dory’s little sister Callie comes home from school a victim of bullying, then Detective Finicky Finnegan’s little...

PBSO Deputy Kenneth Torrence – A True Inspiration

PBSO Deputy Kenneth Torrence splits his time between working as a Corrections Deputy at the Western Detention Center during the day (in Belle Glade, Florida) and coaching basketball at Belle Glade Central High School at night. Deputy Torrence tries to be a great role model to inmates and high school basketball players alike, not only being a basketball coach, but a coach for life.