Three officers with the Gloucester Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division have recently received promotions.Former Chief of Investigations Lt. Jamie Sharp was promoted to Captain of Law Enforcement on Nov. 6 and is overseeing the Uniform Patrol Division, the Investigations Division, School Resource Officers and the Special Operations Unit.

Sgt. Diane Smith was promoted to Lieutenant of Investigations and Investigator Mike Rice was promoted to Sergeant of Investigations. Both of those promotions were effective Dec. 1.

Sharp has a total of 21 years in law enforcement and 18 years with the GSO. As a lieutenant in investigations, he was in charge of nine investigators from 2017 to 2020.

He was a lieutenant in the Uniform Patrol Division overseeing a shift of six members performing daily patrol activities from 2012 to 2017 and prior to that, he was a sergeant in the Criminal Investigations Division. He is a two-time Supervisor of the Year Award recipient.

Sharp was a...