Back the Red, White & Blue

Thank you to McAlister's Deli of Southern Pines for the lunch delivery to the police department. We appreciate your kindness to our staff!

Southern Pines, show us how much love you can give to the brave firefighters from our Southern Pines Fire & Rescue department who were recognized this week for their life-saving actions!

Our C-shift crew has been credited with saving the life of resident Kathryn Ulrich, whose house caught fire overnight on July 4, 2022. Her husband, Harry, escaped the couple's home and called 911, but was unable to locate his wife in the burning house. Our crew entered the home and after encountering heavy fire, high heat, and zero visibility located Kathryn, who was unconscious. Our crews safely removed her from the home and then Moore County EMS then took over with treatment.

These three firefighters received a Life Saving medal on January 25th for the search and rescue of Mrs. Ulrich:
Captain Tim Smith
Lieutenant Logan DeBerry
Firefighter Spencer Fallin

Five other firefighters received a Heroism medal for assisting with the search and fighting the fire:
Lieutenant Asa Bailey
Driver/Operator John Wilson
Firefighter Kaylee Jones
Firefighter Matt Manovsky
Firefighter Justin Taylor

Chief Mike Cameron, Deputy Chief Ted Horvath, Assistant Chief Ken Skipper, and Firefighter Jay Hough also responded and assisted with this call.

Thank you Southern Pines Fire & Rescue for your dedication to our community and risking your lives to protect all of us!

We'd also like to recognize our automatic aid partners Aberdeen Fire & Rescue Department, Cypress Pointe Fire & Rescue, Village of Pinehurst - Government Fire Department, Whispering Pines Fire Rescue Department, and Moore County Public Safety EMS.

We are hiring!

Our mission is to ensure public safety by the secure detention of those persons committed to our custody and to ensure that those persons committed to our custody are provided a secure and cost-effective environment that is safe for both inmates and staff.

As a Detention Officer, you will be providing general supervision to the incarcerated population.
You will be properly trained to perform duties to include in-take, processing, monitoring, feeding, and transporting inmates to ensure their safety, security, and accountability incarcerated in the jail.

Applicants are required to provide the following:
-Highschool Diploma or GED
-North Carolina Driver’s License
-Military DD-214 (if applicable)
-Must successfully pass a background check and psychological exam

If interested, call the Moore County Detention Center at 910-947-2980 or email [email protected]

January 9 was Law Enforcement Appreciation Day and we are so appreciative of our School Resource Officers! They go above and beyond each day to ensure the safety of our schools while also building and maintaining positive relationships with students and staff!

The Aberdeen Police Department would like to thank Powell Funeral Home & Pinelawn Memorial Park for bringing donuts for our officers for Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. We appreciate the support!

On National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, Sheriff Ronnie Fields would like to thank all the men and women who take the oath to serve and protect the citizens of Moore County.
Please continue to pray for their safety each and every day.

Law Enforcement Appreciation Day (L.E.A.D.) is 2 days away, January 9th! What are you doing to show support for Law Enforcement?

Sheriff Fields and the Moore County Sheriff’s Office would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

Restoring safety in our schools, restoring student discipline, and insisting on student repect for our faculty & staff is one of four major goals of your new school board.

Towards that end is attached is the 2022 1st Quarter Discipline Report for MCS along with a discussion of the issues and results from my perspective Although I do not speak for them, I believe my perspective reflects the views of most of your School Board.

Please note that the attached statistics were sent to all School Board members in our monthly update from the Superintendant.

DISCUSSION:

Restoring student discipline and student respect towards faculty & staff were major discussion items during our development of the new MCS Strategic Plan. It was also more recently discussed during our reviews of the School Improvement Plans.

Major concerns of your School Board included:

#1. Lack of Visibility/Transparency

The only discipline infractions historically reported by the central office to both the School Board and the public were the state mandated reporting which only included major felonies, expulsions, and criminal referrals. This board believed that did not paint the entire picture, so we asked for quarterly reports which more completely and accurately reflect what is happening inside our schools. This report is the beginning of 100% transparency on student discipline and misconduct. I believe it is a good start, however I would like to see additional information such as the categories for referals (Fights, va**ng, disrespect, etc).

#2. The Un-Intended Consequences of Using "Reduction of Discipline Referrals" and "Reduction in Suspensions" as a goal

The previous MCS Strategic Plan which governed MCS from 2018 -2022 set reducing discipline referrals and suspensions as a goal. From 2018 – 2022, discipline referrals and suspensions did decline within MCS. However, based upon the number and severity of videos of fights within MCS, reports of student disrespect towards factulty and staff, and exit interviews with teachers, it is apparent that reducing discipline referrals and suspensions did not increase student discipline and safety in our schools. Rather, for the reasons cited below, the prevous strategic plan caused a decline of discipline and and increase in blatant student disrespect towards faculty and staff.

Why?

Because telling the faculty and staff to reduce discipline referrals peversely resulted in teachers and staff being instructed to not make needed discipline referrals. Teachers being discouraged, or in some cases, actually prevented from making discipline referals frustrated teachers as they were forced to deal with disruptive students who should have been removed from their classrooms. It also created envirnoments not condusive to learning, which negatively affected the academic success of well behaved students.

Likewise, telling administrators not to suspend the few students who were referred resulted in students not facing meaningful consequences for their actions

Together, the lack of needed discipline referals coupled with the lack of meaningful consequences, resulted in a breakdown of discipline and safety in our schools.

Make no doubt about it. This board supports the judgement and reasonable disciplinary actions of both our teachers and our administrators.

We realize the way to instill and enforce discipline is to support our teachers who make disciplinary referrals and ensure students learn there are consequences for their actions and that they suffer the appropriate consequences of their actions via meaningful punishment.

Therefore, as we discussed during the 6 December work session where we reviewed the School Improvement Plans, "reducing discipline referrals" and "reducing suspensions" will no longer be used as measure of effectiveness. Rather, we will use other measures, such as faculty/staff surveys and parental surveys on discipline and respect. Although imperfect, this is a more correct approach to measure student discipline and our efforts to restore it throughout our schools.

We view the increase in discipline referrals, suspensions, and possibly expulsions as a necessary step towards ensuring the safety of our faculty/staff/students and restoring student discipline and respect in our classrooms.

This report, along with the results of "climate surveys" are a start towards providing situational awareness and visibility on student discipline and misconduct.

ETA: Please note that it is our sincere belief, that in order to have academic success, we must have discipline in our classrooms. As stated earlier, this School Board will use every tool available to us, to include long terms suspensions, and, if need be criminal referals and expulsion, to ensure the safety of our schools and the discipline of our students. It is what our faculty/staff, parents, and most importantly, our students deserve.

Thank you for choosing to serve our community Officer Davis.

Tonight, Officer Z. Davis was formally sworn in at the Aberdeen Commissioner’s Meeting. Officer Davis is a graduate of Appalachian State University and has been with the Aberdeen Police Department since July, 2022.

The FBINA is a major achievement. Congratulations!

Today, the Aberdeen Police Department announced that Captain Brian Chavis has graduated as a member of the 284th session of the FBI National Academy. The graduation took place at the National Academy in Quantico, Virginia on December 8, 2022. Captain Chavis is one of very few individuals from the Aberdeen Police Department to complete this prestigious program. Nationally, fewer than one percent of officers have had the opportunity to attend the program.

Internationally known for its academic excellence, the National Academy offers ten weeks of advanced communication, leadership, and fitness training. Participants must have proven records as professionals within their agencies to attend.

The 284th session consistent of two hundred and thirty-seven law enforcement officers from forty-nine states and the District of Columbia. The class included members of law enforcement agencies from 25 countries, 5 military organizations, and 5 federal civilian organizations.

🎅🎅🎅

****Advanced Notice from Santa****

Santa will be touring the Town on December 18th starting on the the east side of Town at 12 (noon). We will be posting a route in the coming weeks.

Help pass the word and keep a look out for the route.

Congratulations to Ted Horvath, Ken Skipper, and Martin Dowd for their completion of the Prevention of and Response to Su***de Bombing Incidents class in New Mexico.

Great sweater! 🎅

Congratulations!

Congratulations to recently promoted Sergeant Corey Hurley ! Corey is a dedicated employee that strives to make Robbins a safe place everyday! Thank you Corey!

Ms. Henry and her team at IHOP of Southern Pines provided a thank you breakfast to agency employees this morning. Thank you for showing your generosity and support for the police department.

Sheriff Fields and the MCSO would like to thank Sheriff Mark Gulledge, Chief Deputy Jay Childers, and the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office for the catered meal from The Grille Restaurant. We appreciate all of the continued support in and around the community.

Supporting our LE is what's it's all about!

Atlas decided to take a little trip around the Village without his humans. Thankfully, Officer Lopez was able to track them down and Atlas has been reunited with his family. Day made! ❤️

This is the beginning of immortalizing our heros and ensuring future generations know of them and the actions.

As mentioned in the accompanying slide, I truly believed that renaming a school, currently named after a creek, in honor of a recent Medal of Honor recipient was going to be widely embraced. Obviously, that assumption was incorrect.

The e-mails and messages you all sent on this issue have been much more genuine and thoughtful than messages received on previous controversial subjects.
Comments ranged from families who described the pride and emotional attachment their children had to the current name and mascot to “What were you thinking knuckle head”.

Other messages gave suggestions, such as considering a Medal of Honor Recipient with more local ties, to the idea summarized as “we have so many recent Medal of Honor recipients, how about a “Hall of Heroes” in each school” (which is actually an exceptional idea).

Almost all of the comments were extraordinarily thought out and valid

Even in the failure of this, I am very encouraged that very few people disagreed with the idea of honoring our heroes. Rather, their opposition was based upon other reasons such as those stated above.

That gives me hope that we will, together, will find a way to honor our fallen heroes.

I thank each of and everyone one of you for your feedback and I apologize for any angst I may have caused you. It was not my intention.

David

Join us Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at the Aberdeen Police Department for Coffee with a Cop. Enjoy some great coffee and chat with us.

Also, we know there are requests to host this event in the evening or a weekend. We will be planning one soon. Stay tuned!

Get your Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics tee shirt tonight!!!

Shirts will be available for purchase at the Tree Lighting Ceremony in Downtown Aberdeen as well as at the Texas Roadhouse fundraising event!

SAVE THE DATE 🗓

The Aberdeen Police Department is partnering up with Texas Roadhouse to raise money for Special Olympics NC on December 1, 2022, from 4pm-9pm.

Make sure to print this flyer or tell your server that you are there for the fundraiser. 15% of total food purchases will be donated to the Special Olympics.

We will also have officers there with Torch Run tee shirts available as well, for $20.

Mark your calendars, we hope to see you there!!!

Town of Aberdeen

Sheriff Ronnie Fields announces that on November 16, 2022 the Moore County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a threat of violence directed at students from Union Pines High School in Carthage, North Carolina.

Sheriff’s investigators, along with Moore County Schools Police, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation worked throughout the night to identify the origin of the threat.

During the early morning hours of November 17, 2022, sheriff’s investigators along with the Sheriff’s Response Team executed a search warrant at a residence in Aberdeen, North Carolina, where they identified a juvenile responsible for making the threat.

Due to the age of the juvenile, charges are pending coordination with the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice.

DON’T FORGET!

Our next Coffee with a Cop will be THIS Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at High Octane (140 S Sycamore St). ☕️

We can’t wait to see you there!

Thank you to Matt and his team from Roast located in Southern Pines. Matt delivered lunches for police department staff on Thursday and Friday. We greatly appreciate your support Matt!

No bones about it… Driving after drinking is downright deadly. 💀

If you’re planning on drinking, plan on finding a sober ride home. is drunk driving.