An Overview of What We Do...
The Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff operates
under the leadership of Sheriff Warren E. Rupf.
Organizationally, the Office of the Sheriff is separated into four bureaus:
Administrative
Services, Custody Services, Field
Operations and Support Services. A
Commander directs the operation of each bureau. The Office of the Sheriff has a staff total of
1,052: 720 sworn personnel and 332 general employees.
State law mandates that county detention facilities
are under the authority of the Sheriff. The Custody Services Bureau
(CSB) operates three detention facilities within the Detention Division, which are located in
Marsh
Creek, Martinez and
Richmond.
The three facilities average an inmate population in excess of 1,500.
Custody Alternative and inmate transportation are also responsibilities of
the Detention Division. Deputy Sheriffs provide security for
the Superior Courts as well as Commissioners. The Marshal’s
Office, with its accompanying duties pertaining to the Courts, was
merged with the Office of the Sheriff in 1988, and now constitutes the
Court Security Division within Custody Services Bureau (CSB).
The Field Operations Bureau
consists of three service divisions: Patrol, Investigation
and Coroner's.
The Patrol Division provides patrol services for the unincorporated area
of the County; the five
contract
cities of Danville, Lafayette, Oakley, Orinda and San Ramon; and the
special districts in Alamo, Blackhawk, Crockett, Diablo and Roundhill;
as well as contracted services with the Contra Costa County Housing Authority, A.C. Transit, the
Contra Costa Water District and Contra Costa Regional Medical Center.
The Investigations
Division is responsible for follow-up investigation of all reported
felony offenses and certain misdemeanor crimes that occur in unincorporated
areas. The Investigations Division investigates roughly 9,400 felony and
misdemeanor crimes annually, to include homicides, robberies,
burglaries, as well as all sex crimes and narcotics violations.
Detectives are assigned to Narcotic Enforcement Teams (NETS), which are
staffed by local law enforcement agencies and supervised by the
Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE)
Agents. Detectives also provide service to contract cities and special
districts.
Since the Sheriff also fulfills the role of County Coroner,
every Sheriff’s Deputy is authorized to act on behalf of the Sheriff
for the investigation of unexplained deaths.
The branch of Administrative
Services is one of the four Bureaus in the Office of the Sheriff. Five
distinct units described below provide the majority of services
performed by this Bureau:
Inspections and Control,
Personnel and Finance,
Planning and Research,
Professional Standards and
Employee Development.
The Office of the Sheriff has its own Crime
Laboratory, which provides service to all law enforcement agencies in
the County and is known for its excellence.
The Communications
Center dispatches for all Sheriff’s patrol units and contracted
services, as well as all emergency medical and Animal Control services
countywide. Annually, 800,000 phone calls are received in the Dispatch
Center. The communications center was recently upgraded and
remodeled. The project began in late 1997 and was completed in mid-1999.
The challenge now facing the Office of the Sheriff is
for strong, consistent forms of funding that will allow us to
continue to provide numerous services to the growing and expanding
population of our County.
Office of the Sheriff