With the general primary election just days away, Bulloch County sheriff candidates Noel Brown and Jared Akins each are working to reach voters with messages about why they feel they are the right choice for the job. Each sat down with the Statesboro Herald in separate interviews to share their qualifications and their ideas on ways to improve the Sheriff's Office, its relationship with the community and the media, and its fight against crime, as well as their thoughts on the sheriff's role in that battle. Brown said that his military career and work with the public as a road deputy and now as a commander of the department's civil and warrants division gives him what he needs to lead the Sheriff's Office.