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Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Presents 2025 City Of Troutdale Annual Report, Highlighting Crime Reduction Efforts - 06/01/26

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. -- The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office presented its 2025 City of Troutdale Annual Report, demonstrating public safety improvements, enhanced response efficiencies, and greater community engagement.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office managed 8,644 total calls for service within Troutdale in 2025. This includes emergency dispatched responses and self-initiated proactive services.

 

The briefing comes as the City of Troutdale reviews its long-standing intergovernmental public safety agreement with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, originally established in March 2015. The city has expressed interest in creating its own city-run police department.

 

“The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and Troutdale’s shared history since 2015, has resulted in a stable, professional, and highly capable public safety model,” said Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell. “We view our relationship with Troutdale as deeply important and a long-term investment in the city’s future. By continuing to leverage the resources of the sheriff’s office, Troutdale can maintain a level of public safety that meets and exceeds the needs of this community.”

 

Under the contract, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office provides Troutdale around-the-clock comprehensive policing services throughout the city between two districts. A minimum of one sergeant is on duty to supervise these efforts. This is accomplished through three 10-hour shifts. Two uniformed deputy sheriffs are assigned to overlapping shifts.

 

“Our partnership with the City of Troutdale is intentionally designed around friendly service where residents and business owners truly get to know their deputies,” said Chief Deputy Lance Hemsworth. “The 2025 metrics reflect the gains we have made together in tackling the safety and livability issues that matter most to this community.”

 

The report emphasized the administrative support and specialized units provided by the contract, which ensures Troutdale receives comprehensive, modern police capabilities that an independent municipal agency would otherwise have to fund entirely on its own, such as a records division or detectives who are responsible for investigating crime.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office conducted 34 high-visibility enforcement missions in 2025 targeting stolen vehicles, retail theft, dangerous driving, human trafficking, and DUIIs. These proactive operations yielded 151 arrests, 114 citations, and recovered 16 stolen vehicles in Troutdale.

 

The city’s dedicated Community Resource Deputy (CRD) focused exclusively on long-term neighborhood safety. In 2025, Troutdale's CRD transformed a single traffic stop into a complex investigation, culminating in a successful search warrant that dismantled a stolen property ring.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office’s Investigations Unit handled complex criminal offenses, initiating 142 new cases in Troutdale and closing 116 felony investigations, including a rapid, life-saving response and exhaustive major crimes team follow-up to a multi-victim shooting at the Sandy River Delta in Troutdale.

 

School resource deputies embedded within the Reynolds School District provided campus safety and mentorship, documenting 273 proactive mentoring contacts and teaching 11 student classes, while recording zero campus arrests or citations in 2025.

 

Troutdale residents and businesses deserve a law enforcement model that is ready – and able to – protect lives. Establishing a fundamentally understaffed, inadequate police department – one that lacks 24/7 patrol services – does not fulfill the government’s public safety obligation to its residents.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office encourages residents to stay involved with the process by learning more and sharing their opinions at upcoming public meetings.

 

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Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Presents 2025 City Of Troutdale Annual Report, Highlighting Crime Reduction Efforts - 06/01/26

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. -- The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office presented its 2025 City of Troutdale Annual Report, demonstrating public safety improvements, enhanced response efficiencies, and greater community engagement.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office managed 8,644 total calls for service within Troutdale in 2025. This includes emergency dispatched responses and self-initiated proactive services.

 

The briefing comes as the City of Troutdale reviews its long-standing intergovernmental public safety agreement with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, originally established in March 2015. The city has expressed interest in creating its own city-run police department.

 

“The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office and Troutdale’s shared history since 2015, has resulted in a stable, professional, and highly capable public safety model,” said Sheriff Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell. “We view our relationship with Troutdale as deeply important and a long-term investment in the city’s future. By continuing to leverage the resources of the sheriff’s office, Troutdale can maintain a level of public safety that meets and exceeds the needs of this community.”

 

Under the contract, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office provides Troutdale around-the-clock comprehensive policing services throughout the city between two districts. A minimum of one sergeant is on duty to supervise these efforts. This is accomplished through three 10-hour shifts. Two uniformed deputy sheriffs are assigned to overlapping shifts.

 

“Our partnership with the City of Troutdale is intentionally designed around friendly service where residents and business owners truly get to know their deputies,” said Chief Deputy Lance Hemsworth. “The 2025 metrics reflect the gains we have made together in tackling the safety and livability issues that matter most to this community.”

 

The report emphasized the administrative support and specialized units provided by the contract, which ensures Troutdale receives comprehensive, modern police capabilities that an independent municipal agency would otherwise have to fund entirely on its own, such as a records division or detectives who are responsible for investigating crime.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office conducted 34 high-visibility enforcement missions in 2025 targeting stolen vehicles, retail theft, dangerous driving, human trafficking, and DUIIs. These proactive operations yielded 151 arrests, 114 citations, and recovered 16 stolen vehicles in Troutdale.

 

The city’s dedicated Community Resource Deputy (CRD) focused exclusively on long-term neighborhood safety. In 2025, Troutdale's CRD transformed a single traffic stop into a complex investigation, culminating in a successful search warrant that dismantled a stolen property ring.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office’s Investigations Unit handled complex criminal offenses, initiating 142 new cases in Troutdale and closing 116 felony investigations, including a rapid, life-saving response and exhaustive major crimes team follow-up to a multi-victim shooting at the Sandy River Delta in Troutdale.

 

School resource deputies embedded within the Reynolds School District provided campus safety and mentorship, documenting 273 proactive mentoring contacts and teaching 11 student classes, while recording zero campus arrests or citations in 2025.

 

Troutdale residents and businesses deserve a law enforcement model that is ready – and able to – protect lives. Establishing a fundamentally understaffed, inadequate police department – one that lacks 24/7 patrol services – does not fulfill the government’s public safety obligation to its residents.

 

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office encourages residents to stay involved with the process by learning more and sharing their opinions at upcoming public meetings.

 

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