SAPD officers will be wearing black ribbons in honor of Ptl. J. A. Jones of Charleston PD. Two of our officers attended the state police academy with Ptl. Jones and they both held him high esteem. One of those officers is a fellow Marine Corps veteran of Iraq.

We ask everyone to join us in thoughts & prayers for the family of Ptl. Jones and for the Charleston Police Department.


Theodore Roosevelt (From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910):

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.