The Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department has added two new civil process servers as a way to free more time for deputies to be out on  patrol.

Sheriff Matt Myers says that the new positions were suggested during a Six Sigma review of the department’s operations last year. The civil process servers will be delivering non-criminal court paperwork to residents — a task that previously fell to deputies.

Myers said that the change frees up time for deputies to do traffic enforcement, criminal warrant service or other policing activities.

The new civil process servers are former Columbus police officers Dave Brown and Max Haymaker. They have served more than 700 civil papers to date.