More on that in a bit.Ĭalvert County faces a few unique challenges that provided not only the need but the justification, and in some ways indirect funding, for the Special Operations Team. The part time assignments allow for additional training time and juggling other duty responsibilities. As of this writing, CCSO SOT has grown to have eleven full-time members and ten part time members.
It wasn’t until 2006 that there were deputies assigned to SOT on a full-time basis. Whatever their full-time assignment was with the sheriff’s office, they had to do that as well as the additional training and assignments/call outs for the SOT. At that time, with limited manpower, the team was stood up with personnel being assigned part time only. We were appreciative when he and his Special Operations Team Commander, Major Steve Jones, made time to talk with us about the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Team (CCSO SOT), its history, missions, capabilities and more.īoth men credited the founding of the SOT unit to the late Lieutenant Tommy Buckler who, from what I understand, generally harassed the Sheriff in 1990 about creating such a team until the then Sheriff finally relented. ( Special Tactical Assault Team Element is what Maryland State Police call their SWAT teams) team, as well as being an Army veteran. Sheriff Mike Evans is himself a retired Maryland State trooper and former special operations member of the State’s S.T.A.T.E. The county law enforcement needs are served by the Maryland State Police barracks located in the county seat of Prince Frederick and the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office also headquartered in Prince Frederick. but don’t want to be quite so close to “city life.” Parts of Calvert County couldn’t even be referred to as suburbs.
The location of the county and its still-rural feel make it a desired location for folks who have to work in D.C. With the Patuxent River on its western edge, it’s largely a peninsula split lengthwise by Maryland’s Route 4 which, if you follow it north and west far enough, turns into Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC. It’s still a largely agricultural county (as this is written) and has a population of approximately 93,000 people (2019 estimate). and sits on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. so welcome to the inaugural issue of it as well! We’re going to start in the mid-Atlantic region, in southern Maryland, shore of the Chesapeake Bay-in Calvert County.Ĭalvert County, Maryland is less than a one hour drive southeast of Washington D.C. In our inaugural issue of OFFICER Magazine, we’re launching this effort. Welcome to our new quarterly feature wherein we’ll spotlight a special operations team from somewhere in the United States (to start).
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