The King County Sheriff's Office ( KCSO ) is a local police agent in King County, Washington. It is the premier law enforcement agency for all the unrelated areas of King County, as well as 12 cities and two transit agencies who contract their police services to KCSO. KCSO also provides ARFF police and fire services to King County International Airport (Boeing Field). KCSO also provides local level support services to other local law enforcement agencies such as air support and search and rescue. The department has more than 1,000 employees and serves more than 1.9 million residents, over 500,000 of whom live in unrelated areas or 12 city contracts.
Sheriff of King County today is Mitzi Johanknecht, former Major in the Department. Johanknecht was elected in November 2017 and inaugurated at a private ceremony on December 28, 2017. The public ceremony took place on 2 January 2018.
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The first King County Sheriff was elected in 1852. The office was renamed the King County Public Security Department after the voters approved the charter amendment in 1967. In the 1980s, the department's name changed again, this time to King County Police. Department. In 1996, voters decided to return the vote to the sheriff and the name was changed back to King County Sheriff's Office.
Major Mitzi Johanknecht defeated John Urquhart in power in the selection of sheriff King County 2017.
Sheriff since 1981
- Barney Winckoski, 1981-1983
- Jim Nickle (acting sheriff), 1983
- Vernon Thomas, 1983-1987
- Jim Nickle (acting sheriff), 1987-1988
- James Montgomery, 1988-1997
- Dave Reichert, 1997-2004
- Sue Rahr, 2005-2012
- Steve Strachan, 2012
- John Urquhart, 2012-2018
- Mitzi Johanknecht, incumbent since 2018
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Division
- The Sheriff's office - including the sheriff, deputy chief, chief of staff, helpers, media relations officers, labor negotiators, Internal Investigation Unit and Legal Unit.
- Field Operations Division - manages core patrol functions, base-based detectives, crime prevention, storefronts, and deputy reserves. The division into four regions allows for better community-based responses because police commanders can use local data to guide law enforcement services. The day-to-day management of municipal police contracts and school resources officers, is the responsibility of this division.
- Special Operations Division - provides support services for other divisions, regional services to local agents, and contract police services to King County Metro Transit Division (including Transit Sound Police), King County Transport Department (Motor Unit (dissolved 10/1/12)), and King County International Airport, ARFF Police. Services provided by this division include: K-9 units with drug search and detection capabilities; Air Support (Guardian One); Marine Units; Bomb defuser; tactical training in firearms, non-lethal weapons, and defensive tactics; Tac-30 (SWAT); negotiating hostages; dignified protection; coordination of cranes and appeals hearings; Find & amp; Save; D.M.T. (Demonstration Management Team); instructions and equipment for Haz-Mat; and the planning and coordination of special events. This division also leads in planning for domestic security issues.
- Criminal Investigation Division (CID) - including Main Crimes Section, Special Investigation Section, and County King County Criminal Intelligence Group. This division serves citizens with investigative services, warrants, and advanced intelligence-gathering. In particular, it investigates crimes including murder, domestic violence, computer fraud, forgery, sexual harassment, and more. CID also addresses the issue of child support enforcement.
- Technical Services Division - provides most support services essential for efficient operation. Often, employees in this division provide direct services to citizens and support services to other divisions. Services provided by division personnel include emergency 9-1-1 calls and shipments, managing court security (Marshals Region).technological developments, records, contracts, civil processes, personnel/recruitment, payroll, purchasing, training, photography, applications and administration grants, planning, and all aspects of fingerprint identification.
Contract City
The following cities are contracting their police to KCSO:
- Beaux Arts Village
- Burien
- Carnation
- Covington
- Kenmore
- Maple Valley
- Newcastle
- Sammamish
- SeaTac
- Shoreline
- Skykomish
- Woodinville
Other contracts
- King County International Airport Police/Fire ARFF (Boeing Field)
- King County Dept. of Transportation: Road Division (Motor Unit)
- Muckleshoot Indians
- Transit Sound Police
- Snoqualmie Tribal Police (Call for services based only)
- King County Marshals
- King County Fire/Arson Investigator
- c. 15 additional contract services from the school district to security
- Sea Patrol Contracts to the cities of Beaux Arts, Bellevue, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kirkland, Redmond, Sammamish, and Yarrow Point. A sea call for service only on all of King County Sheriff's office patrol contracts.
Most of the contracts within the Sheriff's Office have their own patch designs and patrol cars and wear the King County Sheriff badge, while other contracts have no identity other than King County Sheriff's uniforms, patches and patrol cars. Contracts that do not have their own identity are Beaux Arts Village, Skykomish, Snoqualmie Tribe, Muckleshoot Tribe (though they are accustomed to wearing tribal patches) and King County Metro Transit. The Metro County Transit Police King County, a unit of the sheriff's office, has a special patrol car style for the Metro Police, and their own uniforms with standard King County Sheriff patches. The city of North Bend was contracted with KCSO from 1973 to 8 March 2014 when the City of Snoqualmie Police Department took over the police job in North Bend, at which time the North Bend contract was the longest contract of KCSO.
The KCSO Motor Unit is under contract with the King County Transportation Department: The Road Division, which in turn provides funds for the STEP (Selective Traffic Enforcement Program) targeting select arteries within unrelated King County based on accident history, chronic traffic problems , and high citizen complaints. The KCSO Motorcycle Unit is wearing a standard KCSO patch and Class A uniform and driving a Honda KCSO marks a police motorcycle. Motor units participate in traffic enforcement, instructor certification, polite safeguards and escorts, parades and special events, educational activities and schools and extensive motorcycle training. This unit was dissolved October 1, 2012.
Ranking structure
Enforcement Law Enforcement Program
The King County Sheriff's Office has a volunteer program for individuals between the ages of 14 and 21 who are interested in investigating a career in law enforcement. The program is called King County Sheriff Explorers and is a local outpost of the Learning to Explore Life program. The Explorer has a ranking structure similar to the Sheriff's Office. The explorers attended the academy and competition, participated with the patrol deputies, and received training on various law enforcement topics.
There are five Explorers' posts in cities contracted with the King County Sheriff's Office, which is an unincorporated post in Woodinville, as well as town posts in Sammamish, Maple Valley, SeaTac, and Burien.
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Since the founding of the King County Sheriff's Office, 15 officers have been killed while on duty.
Controversy
In February 2012, Dustin Theoharis was shot sixteen times by a number of sheriff's deputies and an unnamed Department of Correction officer while he was lying on his bed. The officers were trying to find a home for another man when they saw Theoharis move and they opened fire. Officers responded to the shooting allegedly failed to collect evidence, moved goods at the scene and acted as supporters of the shooters. Internal investigation found no fault on the part of the officer. The officers involved refused to cooperate with the investigation. County agreed to pay $ 30 million to settle the matter. Sheriff John Urquhart told the press that he was not responsible for this incident because he had not been elected.
See also
- List of law enforcement agencies in Washington
References
External links
- the King County Sheriff's site
- The King County Sheriff's Web site at the Wayback Machine (index archive)
- King County Explorer Sheriff's Site
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