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Warrant unit of Hall County Sheriffs Office stays busy
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Sgt. Chris Tempel of the Hall County Sheriff’s Office warrant unit, looks at the file of an active warrant Thursday in the division’s offices at the Hall County Jail. Warrant deputies are tasked with tracking down people when warrants are issued and when people escape from work release.
The warrant unit may be the Hall County Sheriff’s Office’s most visible department, with officers hitting the streets serving about 20 warrants per day, but it doesn’t always make the news. The Sept. 18 walkaway of two work release inmates, reported Monday, put a spotlight on the unit tasked with finding the two men. “It’s not that what we do is secret.