Welcome to the Pawnee County Sheriff Office website. It is our hope that you will find this site interesting , informative and will use it as a means to provide us with feedback on the job we are doing.   

Few would argue that Pawnee County  is truly a great place to live, work, and raise a family. We are all fortunate to be a part of a community that is strengthened by strong values. Our mission at the Sheriff's Office is to enhance the quality of life in Pawnee County  by serving and protecting our community through excellent law enforcement services. We are proud of the services we provide and equally proud of the confidence the public has in us and our capabilities. Together we will make a difference, and in so doing preserve the quality of life we all enjoy, not only for ourselves, but for future generations as well.

Enjoy your visit to our website and don't hesitate to suggest how we might improve upon it.

                                                                                        

 

Mindset

by C. L. Harmon 

 

We all earn that which we feel. If we feel pride, it is because we have committed an act or provided a service for which we and others should express and experience pride.   

The same is true for shame. We feel its clutch only when we have earned its relentless embrace by our words and actions. If those actions cause us to feel ashamed, regardless of the purity of our motives, those actions are still wrong.  

To honor a request from one person which brings difficulty or causes hardship on another is a conflict of good conscience and will naturally bring a feeling of shame to both he who asks and he who complies. 

There is no reason under any faith which is justified to be right or moral when it harms another. Even as act of self preservation is a shameful act when that preservation is secured by the detriment of another. The same objective of preserving that which is of importance to us could be obtained through an act worthy of pride by simply having enough faith in our Creator to support others by gestures of goodwill. 

Truly living a life in which one can be proud and living it in faith means never having to ask others to perform actions for which they should be ashamed.