Sgt. Moses Brown School Resource Officer of the Year
By Valerie Sliker, courtesy Wagener Monthly
Moses Brown was presented with the 2016 SC School Resource Officer of the Year award on June 30, 2016 at a law enforcement conference in Myrtle Beach. Sgt. Brown was again presented the award by his peers at a Wagener town council meeting on July 18th. This annual award is bestowed in recognition for outstanding contributions to the schools, the law enforcement agency and the community served Sergeant by its recipient.
Graduating from Voorhees College on a track and field scholarship in 2010, Sgt. Brown began working with DJJ on the correctional side, quickly moving up through the DJJ to the DJJ PD. Brown appreciates the variety of difficult incidents he learned to manage working “on the inside.” It was a breeze, he says, to come work out on the streets.
In the summer of 2013, Sgt. Brown accepted a job as an officer with the Wagener PD. He soon became the school resource officer and was promoted to Sergeant in 2014. Brown also serves as the training officer at WPD and will soon be over the Property & Evidence section.
Brown, the only boy among 5 children, credits his father, a Viet Nam veteran, for the stern and disciplined manner in which he was raised, keeping him out of trouble and with a healthy respect for authority. Brown adamantly pronounces that he doesn’t think he is better than his friends who got in trouble or incarcerated, he is just more fortunate having the father he had.
I spoke with Sergeant Moses Brown at town hall just before he received the award.