The Osceola County Sheriff's Office arrested 50 people and wrote more than 200 citations over a two-day period in a specialized operation in an attempt to reduce crime.

On Aug. 12 and 13, Sheriff's Office deputies conducted Operation Zero Tolerance. Deputies from all areas of the agency including aggressive driving, agriculture/marine, aviation, communications, criminal investigations, community re-sponse team, evidence, forensics, tourist policing, motors, K-9, narcotics enforcement team, reserves, robbery, traffic and warrants worked all areas of the county according to a Sheriff's Office press release. The operation resulted in 50 arrests and 234 citations.

Based on the Sheriff’s Office community-oriented policing mission, the goal was to reduce crime in these areas, while gathering valuable intelligence.

This was the 16th time the Sheriff’s Office conducted the large-scale operation. The result of all sixteen operations has been 1,375 arrests and 4,346 citations issued.