NORWICH - The Chenango County Sheriff's Office held its 34th annual awards ceremony at the Northeast Classic Car Museum last week, on Friday March 6, to recognize officers and civilians alike, for their dedicated and outstanding service to the community.

The Chenango County Sheriff's Office has served the community 24 hours a day for the last 228 years, since the year 1798. This awards ceremony was started to give credit to those who work diligently day in and day out to keep the agency moving forward.

“For me, I think what's important is everyone deserves an award. There's so many people that work hard every year, officers, particularly in corrections, working a lot of overtime. The 911 center faces challenges with the CAD system going down or failing. We have to get that back up and running. That's the nerve center for all public safety response, whether it has to do with law enforcement, fire, EMS, the corrections division, the civil division, everything that's kind of our information system, the CAD system. They've been dealing with that. The law enforcement, they're out on the front lines every day. They work hard and they do a tremendous job going through all the positive and the negatives that are out there,” said Sheriff Ernest Cutting Jr.