Sheriff Davis has a master’s degree in public administration from Capella University, a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Kaplan University, a diploma in computer technology from ECPI College of Technology, and certified in city and county management from the UNC School of Government.

Sheriff Tyree Davis

Tyree Davis holds a diploma in computer technology from ECPI College of Technology, a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Kaplan University, and a master's degree in public administration from Capella University. He is certified in city and county management by the UNC School of Government.

Sheriff Tyree Davis, Halifax County, NC

Sheriff Tyree Davis started his law enforcement career in 2003 with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office. While working with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff Davis rose through the ranks of deputy, corporal, narcotics agent, and sergeant in criminal investigations. In 2015, Sheriff Davis was hired as the captain of the Enfield Police Department and later that year appointed to chief of police. In December of 2020, Sheriff Davis was appointed as the Town Manager for the Town of Enfield. As the town manager, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the town.

Tyree Davis previously worked as the town manager for the Town of Enfield. He also worked with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office as a deputy, corporal, narcotics agent, and sergeant in criminal investigations, and served as captain and chief of police for the Enfield Police Department.

This year marked the third time Tyree Davis has run for Halifax County sheriff. This election cycle he won, collecting 38.25 percent of the vote, to edge out current sheriff’s office Chief Deputy Scott Hall and retired trooper Jimmie Silver. Davis, according to unofficial results, collected 3,007 votes. Hall collected 2,871 while Silver got 1,983. With the win Davis will become the first African American sheriff in the county.

Davis gets nod as Halifax County sheriff

Tyree won election as Halifax County sheriff after previously running for the office twice.

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Tyree currently serves as Halifax County Sheriff.

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Task force with Roanoke Rapids. “We have now started a drug and gang task force with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department,” Davis said. “They were short-staffed, they didn’t have the manpower to do what they needed to do. We’re signing up for the DEA Task Force so we will have a direct link between us and the DEA to help fast-track some of our criminals out of here.”

'Law enforcement comes first,' sheriff tells commissioners

Davis said it’s hard to tell a law enforcement officer that they’re going to be policed. “But that’s what we do. We have to police our own to make sure we’re doing what we’re supposed to do.”

The sheriff’s office has reimplemented training methods for canine officers. “We don’t want you just riding around with that dog looking good. We need you to work with that dog.” Davis said he wants the canine officers to excel at searches — not just for missing people but for drugs and weapons. “We made it mandatory for our canine guys to get monthly training.”

Started a drug and gang task force with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department and plans to join a Drug Enforcement Administration task force.

Said law-enforcement officers should be held accountable through internal oversight.

Implemented mandatory monthly training for canine officers, including searches for missing people, drugs, and weapons.

- Started a drug and gang task force with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department and plans to join a Drug Enforcement Administration task force.
- Said law-enforcement officers should be held accountable through internal oversight.
- Implemented mandatory monthly training for canine officers, including searches for missing people, drugs, and weapons.

Public Safety

The sheriff’s office has started charging inmates for damages done to the detention center, fighting and making shanks. “When I got there they were fighting, making shanks and tearing up our mattresses. The only thing we would do is take the shank and ask them if they needed to go to the doctor if you got beat up or if you tore up a mattress we’d give you another one.” Now the sheriff’s office is charging them for damaging property. “If you damage our property we go into your account. We take money out of your account. We charge you for damage to property and you go to court for it.”

The sheriff’s office is now doing jail checks twice a day where before “at no time were we checking to see if the correct people were in our jail. You would think that’s something you should be doing anyway. We were not doing it … so therefore if somebody escaped we wouldn’t know anything about it until they had a court case or we had cause specifically to come in there.”

The sheriff said he expressed the need to the commissioners and the county management team. “They started looking for ways that we could get a body scanner to keep this contraband out of our jail and that’s where Congressman Davis comes in.” Sheriff Davis said the body scanner will make the detention staff safer “because we all know how deadly fentanyl is and other drugs and weapons. One jail found a firearm tucked inside somebody. If they can get into the jail they will.”

Detention center gets funds for body scanner

Many of these items, he said, can’t be found from a strip search. “But we can find them with a body scanner. I’m so excited. I can’t wait to get it. I thank our county management team, our county commissioners and our congressman for making this happen.” Said the sheriff: “This will help keep our inmates and our staff safe and I appreciate it.”

Each of the sheriff’s offices were charging Halifax $75 per day, per inmate while the going rate currently is $50 per day per inmate. “I reached out to those sheriffs and asked them to reduce their rates from $75 per day to $50 per day … They worked with us and moved their rates down to $50 a day per inmate just like these other jails that are housing our inmates. That’s saving us a tremendous amount of money when it comes to paying other jails to hold our inmates.”

Implemented charges against people in custody for damaging detention-center property, including deductions from their accounts and court proceedings.

Implemented twice-daily jail checks to verify that the people held in the facility are correctly accounted for.

Supports obtaining a body scanner to detect contraband and improve safety for detention staff and people in custody.

Negotiated lower daily rates for housing Halifax County inmates in other jails, from $75 to $50 per inmate.

- Implemented charges against people in custody for damaging detention-center property, including deductions from their accounts and court proceedings.
- Implemented twice-daily jail checks to verify that the people held in the facility are correctly accounted for.
- Supports obtaining a body scanner to detect contraband and improve safety for detention staff and people in custody.
- Negotiated lower daily rates for housing Halifax County inmates in other jails, from $75 to $50 per inmate.

Jail Management

The sheriff’s office is partnering with Superior Court Judge Brenda Branch and other judicial officials to bring an adult drug court to Halifax County. “We have good people that are addicted to drugs,” he said. “I don’t care if it's heroin, cocaine or prescription pills — You can have a good person who hurt their back and the next thing you know they’re addicted to pills and they’re doing stuff they wouldn’t normally do to get those pills.” The answer isn’t just throwing them in jail, the sheriff said, but to get them help for their problem. “Some want help and some don’t so we’re going to have to identify the ones that truly want help and truly want to go through the program and get the help.”

When crime happens and we’re not communicating with the law enforcement agencies, they’re falling through the cracks and the criminals are getting away. We can’t have that. We put out the message that if you come into our county to commit crime we will target you, we will identify you and go after you and take every legal recourse we can to get you out of this county whether that’s putting you in a state prison or federal prison. We will use every resource we have because you are not going to come in this county and mess up the quality of life for our citizens.

“We love our state courts,” the sheriff said, “But everybody knows when they’re arrested and they go to state court they’ll get a slap on the wrist and they’ll be back home before we finish our paperwork.” Thus far, five people have been taken into federal custody and through the federal court system where there are mandatory minimums. “We are targeting the ones that are causing us the most headaches in this county. We’re spending our funds to build great cases against them,” he said. “Now we have a partnership with the DEA, the FBI and they are adopting our cases. We pick these folks up and put them in federal custody. So far we have five. We have many more to come and I can’t wait until that paperwork is signed so we can pick them up.”

Supports drug-court treatment for people with addiction who want to participate in rehabilitation.

Said the sheriff’s office will identify people who commit crimes in Halifax County and pursue all available legal avenues for incarceration.

Partners with federal law-enforcement agencies to develop cases against people the office identifies as major offenders and seek federal prosecution.

- Supports drug-court treatment for people with addiction who want to participate in rehabilitation.
- Said the sheriff’s office will identify people who commit crimes in Halifax County and pursue all available legal avenues for incarceration.
- Partners with federal law-enforcement agencies to develop cases against people the office identifies as major offenders and seek federal prosecution.

Criminal Justice

Tyree Davis

Introduction
My name is M’Bechi “Tyree” Davis. I am 32 years old. I have been married to Arnette Terry Davis for eight years. We have a two-year-old little boy that was born on Valentines Day, 2011. I grew up in Weldon, but I currently reside in Enfield.

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Tyree Davis grew up in Weldon. He earned a diploma in computer technology from ECPI College of Technology, a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Kaplan University, and a master's degree in public administration from Capella University, and is certified in city and county management from the UNC School of Government. He is married to Arnette Terry Davis, has a son, and lives in Enfield.

Sheriff Tyree Davis started his law enforcement career in 2003 with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office. While working with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff Davis rose through the ranks of deputy, corporal, narcotics agent, and sergeant in criminal investigations.

In 2015, Sheriff Davis was hired as the captain of the Enfield Police Department and later that year appointed to chief of police.

In December of 2020, Sheriff Davis was appointed as the Town Manager for the Town of Enfield. As the town manager, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the town.

Tyree Davis previously served as town manager for Enfield and as chief of police for the Enfield Police Department. He began his law enforcement career with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office, where he served as a deputy, corporal, narcotics agent, and sergeant in criminal investigations.

Tyree Davis being sworn in as Halifax County sheriff Monday(Enfield Police Department)
By WITN Web Team
Published: Jul. 12, 2022 at 1:32 PM EDT
HALIFAX COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Enfield’s former police chief and town administrator has been sworn in as the sheriff of Halifax County.
Tyree Davis was sworn in as the county sheriff on Monday.
Former Sheriff Wes Tripp left office early, and Davis beat out Chief Deputy Scott Hall in the sheriff’s primary this spring.

Former police chief/town administrator-named Halifax Co. sheriff

Tyree was sworn in as Halifax County sheriff in 2022.

Former police chief/town administrator named Halifax Co. sheriff

Started a drug and gang task force with the Roanoke Rapids Police Department.

Plans to join the Drug Enforcement Administration task force to coordinate federal law-enforcement work.

Expanded traffic stops, foot patrols, and arrests, which he says are reducing crime in Halifax County.

Plans to identify people who commit crimes in Halifax County and pursue available state or federal legal action.

Seeks patrol salary increases to recruit and retain law-enforcement officers.

Proposes bilingual-pay incentives and hiring more Spanish-speaking officers to improve communication during law-enforcement encounters.

Plans to hold law enforcement accountable while emphasizing proactive collaboration between officers and the community to deter crime.

Implemented twice-daily jail checks to verify that the correct people are in custody.

Seeks an 8 percent detention-center pay increase to retain and hire staff.

Targets people he identifies as causing the most problems in the county and builds cases for federal prosecution.

Supports an adult drug court to provide treatment for people with substance-use disorders who want to participate.

Tyree Davis is the first African American sheriff in Halifax County. He is a father.

Tyree is the sheriff of Halifax County. He previously served as the police chief and town administrator for Enfield.

Tyree is currently the sheriff of Halifax County. He was elected in 2022 and is serving his first term.

For Candidate Tyree Davis on Issue public-safety: Advocates for aggressively targeting and prosecuting criminals who commit crimes in the county to protect the quality of life for residents.

For Candidate Tyree Davis on Issue jail-management: Supports charging inmates for damages to detention center property and holding them accountable for fighting and other misconduct.

Supports establishing an adult drug court to provide help for individuals with drug addictions rather than solely relying on incarceration.

Tyree is the town administrator for Enfield. He previously served as the town's police chief. 

Tyree is currently the sheriff of Halifax County. He was appointed to fill the unexpired term of former Sheriff Wes Tripp. He previously ran for sheriff in 2022 and won.

As of April 6, 2026, Tyree Davis’s website did not contain information on this issue.

For Candidate Tyree Davis on Issue jail-management: Supports charging inmates for damages to detention center property as a means to hold them accountable for their actions.

Supports establishing an adult drug court to provide help for individuals with drug addiction instead of incarceration.

For Candidate Tyree Davis on Issue jail-management:  
Supports charging inmates for damages to detention center property to hold them accountable for their actions.

Supports establishing an adult drug court to provide help for individuals with drug addiction rather than solely relying on incarceration.

Tyree is currently the sheriff of Halifax County. Before becoming sheriff, he served as the chief of police for the Enfield Police Department.

As sheriff, implemented a policy of charging inmates for damaging jail property, such as making shanks (homemade knives) and tearing up mattresses.

Supports the creation of an adult drug court in Halifax County, saying, "We have good people that are addicted to drugs... The answer isn’t just throwing them in jail... but to get them help for their problem."

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- The sheriff is responsible for enforcing the law, managing security in jails and courtrooms. They also oversee daily conditions of the jail and inmates in custody and serve legal documents such as warrants and eviction notices. Their ultimate responsibility is to protect the community. 

Responsible for enforcing the law and overseeing jails. 