The Indiana Sheriffs’ Association (ISA) awarded Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin the Indiana Sheriff of the Year for 2022. This is the third year in a row he received the ‘County Top Cop’ award
Sheriff Goodin was honored by his peers last Wednesday at the annual ISA Conference President’s Dinner held in French Lick.
The award is presented annually to a Sheriff who has performed the duties of the office in the highest professional manner and is intended to recognize a Sheriff who has shown unusual initiative and imagination in the performance of their duty.
Goodin became Sheriff of Scott County in January 2019 and was selected by the ISA for this award in 2020 immediately following his first year in office. Last year the ISA selected all 92 Sheriffs for the award based on the response by all to the COVID-19 crisis across the state. This year, Goodin was again selected outright by the ISA committee as the Sheriff of the Year for 2022.
“With the current crime rates plummeting in Scott County, receiving a safe community award from Crime Stoppers, and being a model community-oriented policing community along with the Scott County jail being termed a model jail for other jails to copy, Sheriff Goodin has set a gold standard for other Sheriff’s Offices in Indiana to follow,” said Stephen Luce, executive director of the Indiana Sheriff’s Association and a retired Knox County Sheriff.
All 92 County Sheriffs are considered for the award by the committee, said Laura Vest, Administrative Director of ISA. “Having been selected outright twice in their first term as sheriff is unheard of,” she said.
“I am the luckiest man alive…doing a job I love in service to my community is a gift that I will never take for granted,” Goodin said. “With our community-oriented policing, the Scott County Sheriff’s Office is 23,900 members strong. Together, we are all ‘Sheriff of the Year’.”