Sheriff Delpus Hicks was a highly educated man and had worked in law-enforcement for many years before winning the Sheriff’s election race in the late 80’s. Sheriff spoke at many events as well as churches, government functions and civic organizations. He utilized effective words in his speech such as teamwork, love, integrity and family to capture the audience love and respect. His main focus was to keep the community with words of wisdom and love to inspire the community. At every event that he spoke at the audience always was amazed at how he came from nothing and now has the ability to run an entire department and do it with much respect from the community. I remember on several occasions that many of the officers would be on
