Ex-Hartsville police sergeant at center of News13 investigation hired by another Darlington County law enforcement agency

SOCIETY HILL, S.C. (WBTW) — A former Darlington County sheriff’s captain who was previously the subject of multiple Internal Affairs investigations and more recently a SLED investigation has now been hired by the Society Hill Police Department.

Mark Campbell, who News13 has reported on several times over the past two years, joined Society Hill’s police force in late July. He was fired in March 2023 after News13’s investigation into his alleged misconduct and the conduct of another captain, but the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office in March of this year said there was “insufficient evidence” to prosecute him.

News13’s investigative series into Campbell began in November 2022 when Campbell was initially named Darlington’s police chief but then backed out just days after News13 reported about his previous firing from the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office.

After that, News13 uncovered multiple Internal Affairs investigations into Campbell while he worked with the Hartsville Police Department from April 2019 to November 2020. Those included substantiated violations of department policies like sexual misconduct . Campbell was also accused of sexual harassment against many female Hartsville police officers . He quit before he was set to be fired.

News13 has tried to reach out to Society Hill police for weeks to ask about Campbell’s hiring, but we haven’t heard back as of this writing.

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Caleb is a digital producer at News13. Caleb joined the team in January 2023 after graduating from Liberty University. He is from Northern Virginia. Follow Caleb on X, formerly Twitter, and read more of his work here .

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