The Knox County Sheriff’s office is at full capacity—and then some—at this time. Not only are their jail and road deputy jobs filled, but they now have a feeder “intern” system for high schoolers to learn the ropes of being a jail officer or deputy.
Knox County Sheriff Doug Vantlin says they have to limit interships—and that at least one Knox County high school has made law enforcement a program. Vantlin says younger people are making a beeline to the Jail to become jail officers—if not road deputies.
The recent flood of applicants and interns is a reversal of a few years ago, when the Department was short-staffed on jail officers.
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