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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department The Sheriff of Los Angeles County oversees the largest Sheriff's Department in the world, providing police services to all unincorporated county areas as well as to 41 of the 88 municipalities with police service contracts. Sheriff's deputies and detectives respond to more than 1.2 million calls and conduct an estimated 77,000 criminal investigations each year. The Sheriff also manages the nation's largest jail system, supervising more than 20,000 prisoners at any given time and transporting more than 1.6 million prisoners per year between jails and the county's 44 courthouses. The county's newest jail facility, Twin Towers, is the largest jail facility in the world. The Sheriff also provides courtroom bailiffs and serves process for L.A. County's enormous court system. If all of this were not enough, the Sheriff also provides police services for all 349 miles of Metrolink train routes and the entire bus and light rail system of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Although the Sheriff's Department has often been portrayed in television shows and motion pictures like the LAPD, it has not achieved the same level of international acclaim and recognition.
Sheriff's Headquarters, Divisions and Bureaus HEADQUARTERS
Court
Services Division
Total
number of sworn officers: 8,553 Percentage of Sworn Officers by Sex & Race:
Figures as of December 1, 2003
The Sheriff's Transportation Bureau (within the Court Services Division) operates a fleet of 64 standard buses, 2 semi-truck "Superbus" transports, 2 specially equipped wheelchair buses, 17 vans, and 10 radio cars. The Bureau's Deputies will drive more than 2.5 million miles in one year.
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