City of Anderson Police Department, 401 S. Main St., Anderson, SC 29624 – (864) 231-2277
The Anderson City Police Dept. Gang Enforcement Unit is under the command of the Special Operations division and is supervised by Capt. Kevin Marsee. Sgts. Jeff Mosher and Mike Clardy are currently assigned to the unit. Sgt. Mosher's position is federally funded through the PSN (Project Safe Neighborhood) grant. Along with his enforcement duties, his duties under the grant are to ensure that there is dissemination, of pertinent information pertaining to gangs and their activities, to the necessary units and entities. The PSN gang coordinator is to act as a liaison with the Anderson County Community Gang Task Force. He is also responsible for conducting community awareness seminars, to schools and community groups, when requested. He also conducts agency training.
The mission of the Anderson Police Department Gang Enforcement Unit is to improve the quality of life in the community by suppressing gang activity and decreasing the violent crime rate as it relates to "Street Level Crime" perpetrated by members of criminal street gangs. The Unit supports the Mission Statement and values of the City of Anderson through various strategies of "Gang Interdiction" and "Intelligence Lead Policing" which include investigative techniques, proactive strategies, intelligence gathering, and arrests. The Gang Unit will identify, monitor, gather information on, investigate for prosecution and take enforcement action on gangs and their members.
The Gang Enforcement unit was formed in 2006, for the purpose of removing the threat of gangs, guns, drugs and gang related criminal activity from the streets of the city of Anderson. The unit has been successful in reducing violent crime and impacting the threat that gangs and extremists pose to the community, through targeting various crime locations and criminals. The unit works with all divisions of the Anderson Police Department, as well as, in concert with other local, state and federal agencies. Both officers are currently federally deputized and are part of the FBI's Violent Gang Task Force which enables some of the cases to be adopted and prosecuted on the federal level.
In February 2009 Anderson Police Chief Martin Brown and Anderson County Sheriff John Skipper combined resources and formed the Anderson Gang Task Force, which is comprised of the APD Gang Enforcement Unit and a member of the Sheriff's Office C.A.T.C.H. Team. This newly formed task force will operate county wide, which will provide both agencies with additional resources to effectively combat gangs and their various crimes.
If you have any questions or wish to provide any information about possible gang involvement, activity, graffiti, or other criminal activity you can contact on officer with the Gang Enforcement Unit at: (864)231-5208 or e-mail Sgt. Jeff Mosher at jmosher@cityofandersonsc.com or Sgt. Mike Clardy at mclardy@cityofandersonsc.com . Deputy Mark Gregory of the Anderson County Sheriffs Office can be reached at (864) 260-4400 or e-mail at mgregory@andersonsheriff.com.
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City of Anderson Police Department, 401 S. Main St., Anderson, SC 29624 – (864) 231-2277