Bluffton’s Best
This past month, we recognized an officer in our police department, Sgt. Jason Rodriguez. It seems like yesterday when I wrote an article (2015) about the hiring of several officers, including Sgt Rodriguez. Speed forward to today, and he has shown this town so much love and gratitude that the people of Bluffton nominated and voted him Best of Bluffton 2021 First Responder.
“Best of Bluffton” is a program sponsored by Bluffton Today that celebrates and recognizes the best our community has to offer. Readers get to nominate and then vote on the finalists in each category. There isn’t one particular event that led to Sgt. Rodriquez’ nomination and win, but if you look at his time with our police department, you will quickly understand why our residents thought so much of him to give him this honor.
For those of you who haven’t met Sgt. Rodriguez, I want to give you a little history on him. He has been a police officer since 2003 and joined our department in 2015. Prior to that, he served our country for four years in the Marines. This past year, he was interviewed on our social media program called Cop Connection. If you are interested, visit the Bluffton Police Department’s Facebook page and search this. He is fluent in Spanish, which gives him the ability to communicate with most Bluffton residents. He loves working on cars and spending time with his church and his lovely family. He leads a patrol team and is a supervisor of the department’s K9 units as well. He claims to have the best K9 ever; if you happen to see him on the street, give him and Hunden a wave and a smile. Most likely he will stop, get to know you, and let you pet Hunden.
I would love to write about each of our officers as they deserve so much thanks and praise for all they do. We are very lucky to have such a great group of men and women. So, on behalf of all your fellow officers, thank you Sgt Rodriguez for serving the Town of Bluffton.
DID YOU KNOW: Have you recently seen planes flying close to the ground? This is a county mosquito control program that has been in place since 1974. With the population growth that has occurred, I wanted to make sure our readers understood what was happening. More information is available on the Beaufort County website, beaufortcountysc.gov/mosquito-control. Visit to see a schedule as well as information regarding the environmentally friendly spray they use.
