Paul Best, a detective with the Charlottesville Police Department assigned to the Jefferson Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, announced this morning his candidacy for City Sheriff. Best is running as an Independent.
“I believe that the Sheriff’s duty, as well as any law enforcement officer’s duty, is to the citizens and not to a particular party,” he said. “I look to work for the people of Charlottesville and to avoid the divisive party politics.”
If elected, Best says he will make the office an accredited agency through the Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission, and will initiate a series of programs that will “build stronger ties with the community through professionalism and agency transparency,” he said.
Some of the programs Best says he will initiate include: the Gang Reduction and Intervention Program (GRIP), the Reverse Deputy/Volunteer Program (the program will “increase the speed of paper service,” and “will provide cost cutting security for special events.”)
In November, Best will face Democratic nominee James Brown.
Paul Best stands in front of the Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall where he announced his candidacy for City Sheriff. Best is running as an Independent.