Drug Fund to pay for New Sheriff’s Dept. Purchases

Coffee County Sheriff’s Department deputies will be better protected after the department purchases bulletproof and stab-proof vests and vest carriers for deputies.
The sheriff’s department was awarded $41,000 by the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant offered by the Tennessee Justice Department.
The grant money will cover 50 percent of the cost for purchasing the vests. The other 50 percent will be covered by the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department Drug Fund.
Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves said, “The new carrier looks like a uniform shirt, unlike the normal vest that people are used to seeing.”
Eleven additional cameras will be installed soon at the jail with money again coming from the drug fund. They will cost between $20,000 and $25,000.