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EVANSVILLE -- Narcotics officers from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Department and the Evansville Police Department plan to form a single narcotics division at the end of the year.\nThe two departments already had an agreement involving drug cases, but the new task force will put officers under the same roof and the same commander, Sheriff Brad Ellsworth said.\n"There's the same people dealing drugs in the county that are dealing drugs in the city, and vice versa," Sheriff Brad Ellsworth said. "(This) will make us more versatile."\nThe primary goal is to eliminate competition between the departments on drug busts, explained Evansville Police Chief Dave Gulledge.\n"There is competition between the police department and sheriff's department on different individuals sometimes making bigger busts," Gulledge said.