Lee County Sheriff's Office
Community Relations is made up of the Crime Prevention Unit, Senior Services Unit, Community Resources Unit, Construction Crimes Liaison, and the Sheriff’s Youth Activities League. Each unit is responsible for reducing crime and improving the quality of life for the citizens and visitors of Lee County. The Crime Prevention Unit’s focus is on educating our citizens on ways to “target harden” their lives, their homes, and their businesses through crime prevention techniques. The Senior Services Unit’s focus is on crimes involving our seniors as well as finding help for seniors our road patrol deputies come into contact with who have not been a victim of a crime, but are in need of some help, Senior Services also handles our Project Lifesaver program which is a program designed to assist law enforcement in locating individuals with Alzheimer’s, Dementia, or Autism. The Community Resources Unit focuses on communities that often do not see a deputy due to low volumes of complaints such as our gated communities and our mobile home communities. The Construction Crime Liaison works closely with those in our construction industry to combat crime taking place on construction sites and the surrounding areas. And the Sheriff’s Youth Activities League (SAL) is a new program the Sheriff’s Office started to work closely with area middle and high school youth providing them role models by interacting with the in sports and educational pursuits. The first SAL is located in Lehigh Acres and is sharing space with Lee County Parks and Recreation at Veteran’s Park and will eventually grow to encompass each of our districts.

Stacey Payne is the Manager of the Community Relations Section of the Lee County Sheriff's Office since 1996. She has written many crime prevention programs and is one the agency’s instructors for Project Lifesaver, an Alzheimer’s/Wanderer’s program, a national instructor for the S.A.F.E. WOMEN Program and the C.A.S.E. (Communities Against Senior Exploitation) Program.