2008 Officer of the Year

Detective C. Green

Detective Green was born in 1966 in Ukiah, California. After completing high school in Ukiah, he enlisted in the United States Army and served from 1985 to 1992 in Army Special Operations where he served on several continents and was deployed on various missions that are still confidential.

In 1999 Detective Green joined the Sutter County Sheriff's Department as a Correctional Officer in the Custody and Civil Divisions. In December of 2003 he transferred to Patrol Division where he has served on both Street and Boat Patrols. Detective Green is also an underwater dive team member, swift water rescue team member, SWAT team member and Honor Guard. He is now serving as a detective, after being transferred to the Detective Division in 2007.

During his relatively short law enforcement career Detective Green has been the recipient of 25 letters of appreciation from supervisors and allied agencies, with 9 of those letters from private citizens commending his outstanding work. These letters thanked him for his extra effort in cases as small as a bicycle theft to major cases of attempted murder all the way to a letter of appreciation from a grieving parent to thank Deputy Green for making "that one last dive" that resulted in the recovery of her child that had drown in the river.

Detective Green has shown a knack for taking seemingly dead end cases with little or no leads and working them up into prosecutable cases.

Residing in Live Oak, Detective Green is the father of one son and one daughter.