Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers has an unusual habit that’s shared by no other department head in the county.
Rogers often communicates with the Guilford County Board of Commissioners by speaking as a “speaker from the floor” at county meetings. Rogers has easier ways to get his message to the commissioners, but sometimes he wants that message to go out to the public as well – as was the case at the Thursday, June 2 Board of Commissioners meeting, when the sheriff had a very important point he wanted to make.
Speakers were addressing community needs in the coming fiscal 2022-2023 budget, and Rogers had one dominant theme he wanted to get across – Guilford County needs to do whatever it can to attract and hire new detention officers. Rogers addressed the board after several jail guards had spoken from the floor about jail safety, long hours, low pay and other factors that made the job very difficult and the positions hard to fill.
One problem is guards being lured away by higher pay in other places.
Sheriff’s Department officials also made the same point at a Wednesday, June 8 budget work session when the following data was presented:
- Alamance County is offering $3,975 more than the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department for detention officer base starting salary.
- Forsyth County is offering $1,661 more than Guilford County for a deputy’s base starting salary – and $395 more than Guilford County for a detention officer’s base starting salary.
- Mecklenburg County is shelling out $11,842 more than the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department for both deputy and detention officer base starting salaries – plus a $3,000 signing bonus.
- Wake County is enticing guards with $3,412 more than Guilford for the base starting salary for deputies.
- Durham County is offering $2,672 more than Guilford for a deputy base starting salary and is offering $6,000 signing bonuses for both deputies and detention officers.
- Law enforcement agencies in other counties – including New Hanover County – are in the process of increasing starting base salaries.
In recent years Guilford County has taken many steps to help fill the vacancies – holding job fairs, increasing officer pay, and adding a $4,000 signing bonus – but the county’s two jails remain dramatically understaffed.
The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office will NOT recover itself from the retention crisis as long as the current administration’s policies and leadership continues. 3.5 years and we see the same issues. Money, nor benefits will out run Danny Roger’s administration behavior. November 8th we will be in the same crisis as December 5th 2018. FAILURE IN LEADERSHIP WILL TAKE PRESENCE.
It’s sad that Rogers fired all those detention officers for no reason whatsoever, and is now begging for better pay to attract more officers. This is a person who has zero managerial skills.
I agree that there are shortages everywhere, but how can you explain the mass exodus by staff in Guilford County Sheriff’s Office only because they don’t want to work under Rogers? If Danny Rogers would just remove himself and step down as Sheriff, this problem would almost immediately begin to rectify itself.
I saw rogers is bringing in retired officers at $25 an hour. Wasn’t that a complaint some on rogers campaign team had about BJ during the election. Guess rogers has figured out being Sheriff is a lot harder than being a wannabe sheriff
Maybe Rogers can be a jail guard when he loses the election.
This is part of the de-funding… The LEFT wants chaos, so their Savior can fix everything, including us.
I don’t need their saving I have all I need to save me and mine from them or anyone else
Don’t worry about inflation or the dollar. Buy as much ammunition as you can for protection and barter when the lefts crap really hits the fan. And make no mistake it is coming
I hate to say it, but you are right. Stock up on survival gear; food, water, candles, medicines, etc. Have a plan.
What is happening now has never happened here before in the U.S. At the end of WWI, crushing reparations were forced on Germany. There was no way the could get enough in taxes to pay all this, so they could do nothing but print money. This policy bankrupted the nation, and and the people in it. You know what they got.
The SAME thing is happening here. Our govt cannot pay all their bills, and cannot even service the debt. So, they have the power to print money. The worst of it all is that the administration is doing this on purpose, that is to bankrupt the country so BB can take over. Who will be our Hitler?
Question is how are the people who voted for Rogers faring? What about the people who applied pressure to vote for Rogers? How are they faring?
They do their job and then get fired because the criminal is ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!
when has anyone last heard the word ‘nepotism’ used in any media ? look at employment statistics & add up all the gov’t & quasi gov’t (post office, mandated ‘insurance’) numbers. now throw in all gov’t retirees including military. how many are double & triple ‘dippers’ ? now look at the # of ‘charity’ & ‘non profit’ execs & employees & their paychecks. let’s ‘re-allocate’ some of these overpaid/ineffectual/disingenuous paychecks to people who actually work. law & jail enforcement ?
A lot of us double and triple dippers are in Law Enforcement, just with different Agencies. I retired from the City and now work for the State. County guys retiree and go work for the State. State Troopers become Sheriffs or go work for the County. If you are in the same retirement system, you have to freeze your retirement while you work with the other Agency. That shouldn’t matter. If you did 20 years Federal or 30 years local, County, or State you should be able to draw your retirement and work as much as you can without being penalized. If that was lifted a lot of Law Enforcement Agencies wouldn’t have as many vacancies. Some guys work part time to help with expenses as you know we didn’t get paid well as Cops. The City Councils, County Commissioners and law makers need to change the Retirement system to allow more Cops to continue on. Florida and other States allow this and it is a great benefit to everyone.
thank u for your service. thank me for mine. i don’t see many well paid gov’t ‘leadership’ solving the communities problems. i think ‘the game’ is pork for pals & noisy, minority, ‘squeeking wheels’ are getting too much of the limited ‘oil’ – instead of law enforcement – where it should be going.