Deputy Jon Dzekute began his career with the Brown County Sheriff’s Office in April 2005. It was always a goal of his to work for Brown County due to the positive contacts he had with officers growing up. His first experience was with his DARE officer and continued with his liaison officer through high school. Those experiences drove his ambition to be an officer and eventually to pursue a position in the schools.
Deputy Dzekute spent the first 8 years of his career on night shift patrol, before he was given the opportunity to move to day shift patrol, which he took for almost a year before achieving his goal of working in the schools. In 2014, he became one of the department’s D.A.R.E. officers where he had the opportunity to teach the D.A.R.E. program to 5th graders at 23 different schools throughout Brown County. In 2016, He accepted a position as one of the Denmark Directed Enforcement Officers (DEO). Part of his daily responsibilities was working in the schools as a School Resource Officer (SRO). He was afforded the ability to run with the SRO part of his responsibilities. In 2018, Deputy Dzekute became a full time School Resource Officer for the Denmark School District.
He truly enjoys working in the schools and getting to know the students. As a School Resource Officer, he gets to play a much different role and do a lot more teaching and mentoring of students. He has the ability to take some of the incidents that happen and turn them into learning experiences. Deputy Dzekute can then keep in touch with the students to see how successful they are after their contact.
“Most officers choose this career because we want to help people and make a difference in our communities. As an SRO, we get the opportunity to do this on a daily basis. It is a great feeling to see a student that you have worked with go on and succeed outside of the school.”
If you would like to contact Deputy Dzekute, please contact him by email or contact the Denmark High School's main office (920) 863-4200.
