Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office

Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office
Abbreviation SCCSO

Patch of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office

Logo prior to 1990
Agency overview
Formed 1850
Annual budget $298,940,800
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction* County (US) of Santa Clara in the state of California, USA
Map of Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office's jurisdiction.
Size 1,304 square miles (3,380 km2)
Population 1,837,075 (2000)
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters San Jose, California
Deputy Sheriff, Correctional Deputy, Correctional Officers 1429
Civilians 312
Agency executive Laurie Smith, Sheriff
Facilities
Stations 4
Airbases 1
Helicopters 1
Website
http://www.sccgov.org/sites/sheriff/
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office is a local law enforcement agency that serves Santa Clara County, California.

Sheriff

On December 15, 1998, Laurie Smith became the twenty-eighth person to hold the position of Sheriff in Santa Clara County, California. With Smith's landslide election victory on November 3, 1998, she became the first woman law enforcement officer to hold the Office of Sheriff in the history of California.

Organization

The Department is divided into four major bureaus — Field Operations, Support Services, Jail Operations and Administrative Services.

Rank structure

Currently, the Sheriff's Office has 586 full-time sworn staff. These positions are broken down as follows:

Number Title Insignia
1
Sheriff
1
Undersheriff
2
Assistant Sheriffs
10
Captains
15
Lieutenants
85
Sergeants
431
Deputy Sheriffs

In addition to the full-time sworn staff, the Sheriff's Office has 65 Reserve Deputy Sheriffs. To support the entire operation, the Department employs 223 non-sworn, civilian staff.

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Santa Clara Sheriff's Office, seven officers have died in the line of duty.[1]

Officer Date of Death Details
Martin Roonan
Thursday, October 23, 1862
Stabbed
William H. Hendricks
Thursday, February 15, 1866
Gunfire
George Headen
Tuesday, October 19, 1897
Accidental
Hubert Wilson McAuley
Wednesday, November 11, 1931
Gunfire
Eugene Francis Denton
Friday, July 8, 1955
Heart attack
Douglas B. Miller
Monday, June 9, 1986
Gunfire
Paul Robert Bush
Wednesday, September 12, 1990
Gunfire

See also

References

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