A veteran sergeant in the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office is retiring after a career that has spanned 28 years and multiple departments.
Sgt. John Craig, currently a first line supervisor in the county’s Adult Detention Center, joined the Sheriff’s Office in July 1982.
Since then, he has worked in the confinement, court security, alternative incarceration and civil enforcement divisions over the past three decades.
Craig has received numerous honors throughout his career including being awarded deputy of the year after just 12 months working in the Sheriff’s Office.
And in the past year, Craig was awarded the agency’s two highest honors, the distinguished service award and the meritorious action award.
The distinguished service award recognizes an employee’s career of “sustained, exemplary performance,” according to the Sheriff’s Office. Craig received the meritorious action award for assisting police officers in Vienna in apprehending a fleeing suspect while he was off-duty.
Craig has also received the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce’s lifesaving award, which is given to a Fairfax County law enforcement officer each year at the chamber’s valor awards ceremony. Craig was awarded that prize for helping to revive an inmate who had attempted to commit suicide in his cell.
Craig, who lives in Oakton with his wife, joined the Sheriff’s Office shortly after graduating from the Northern Virginia Regional Police Academy.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from California Coast University in 1990.
