COLONEL CHAD CLARK

Special Investigations Responsibilities

The Special Investigations Division of the Sheriff’s Office is a 20-member team which includes the department’s Narcotics Unit, its Street Crimes Unit, employees assigned to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration task force and those assigned to the state H.I.D.T.A., High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area task force.

The Narcotics Unit deals with the suppression of narcotics activity in St. Bernard Parish, acting on informant information, undercover operations and follow-up investigations.
The Street Crimes Unit targets high crime areas, forwarding drug activity information to the Narcotics Unit for follow-up and assisting the sheriff’s patrol units as back-up responders.

SID members received the St. Bernard Kiwanis Club Life-Saver Award in January 2009 for their work in “Operation Driftwood,’’ which produced more than 30 federal and state court indictments of narcotics distributors.

SID is commanded by Col. Chad Clark, a 16-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office and native of St. Bernard Parish, as well as a veteran SWAT team member who has been a patrol deputy and was assigned to the Narcotics Unit before becoming head of the SID. 

He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and in 2000 received an award from the international Narcotics Association for outstanding work over a 5-year period.