-: So my name is John Starks.
I'm a deputy with the Anderson County Sheriff's Office.
Obviously go by Deputy Starks.
Been doing it for about two or three years now.
So my duty is pretty much
protecting the citizens of Anderson County
and we do that by being proactive
and what I mean by that is we go to their neighborhoods.
We're looking at neighborhoods,
we're checking their houses,
we're checking their businesses,
we're making sure that nobody looks suspicious in the area,
you know what I mean?
But we also do traffic stops.
We try to eliminate the drug and the narcotics
through Anderson County
and we do have other units that help us with that.
We also help EMS when there's a overdose.
We have to respond 'cause sometimes we're first on scene,
so sometimes we have to do CPR.
Sometimes we have to administer Narcan.
We also help other agencies out
as far as serving warrants that they think
the people escaped their county or their city
and they've come to Anderson County.
They'll give us the location,
we'll go out there and help 'em serve the warrant.
You know, mostly handling the calls
as far as taking the reports for the citizens
and trying to get their property back
or trying to serve them justice for their property
'cause they wanna see justice for, you know,
nobody likes stealing,
nobody likes people damaging their property,
so that's pretty much our top one is just pretty much
making the citizens happy.
For the sheriff's office, we run 12 hours.
So we start from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM,
or normally we'll switch 'cause we switch every four weeks,
so it'll be 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM,
and then 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM.
But luckily our schedule is we'll do two days on
and then three days off,
and then three days on and two days off.
But I did not wanna be, didn't wanna have a job
where I was sitting in four walls.
I wanted to be out in the community.
I wanted to be able to drive.
I wanted to be able, you know, have the uniform,
the gun and the badge and be out there,
but I say that, but I also will say that
all this stuff comes with responsibility,
a lot of responsibility.
You have to take everything into account
of how you use the equipment and when you come home with it.