Alameda County Sheriff's Office | |
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Abbreviation | Alameda County SO |
Patch of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office
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Agency overview | |
Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
Jurisdictional structure | |
Operations jurisdiction* | State of California, USA |
Legal jurisdiction | Alameda County, California |
General nature |
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Operational structure | |
Headquarters | Oakland, California |
Sworn members | 1500+ |
Unsworn members | 700+ |
Sheriff responsible | Sheriff Gregory J. Ahern |
Facilities | |
Stations | 5 |
Jails | 2 |
Website | |
Official website | |
Footnotes | |
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. |
The Alameda County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) is a law enforcement agency serving Alameda County, California. ACSO is accredited through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), the American Correctional Association (ACA), National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and the California Medical Association (CMA).
As of 2008, ACSO has approximately 2500 positions, over 1500 of which are sworn peace officers.
Alameda County Sherriff's Office is charged with:
The sheriff coroner is an elected position currently filled by Sheriff Gregory J. Ahern. The previous sheriff, Charles Plummer, served from 1987 to 2007.
The Alameda County Sherriff's Office operates two detention facilities. The Santa Rita Jail, located in Dublin, California, is the primary facility that houses most people arrested or convicted of crimes in Alameda County. The Glenn Dyer Detention Facility, also known as the North County Jail, houses a smaller number of inmates and is located in Downtown Oakland.
The Alameda County Sherriff's Office operates a police academy and training exercises for the greater law enforcement community in the Bay Area.
Urban Shield is a comprehensive, full-scale regional preparedness exercise assessing the overall Bay Area UASI Region's response capabilities related to multi-discipline planning, policies, procedures, organization, equipment and training. The exercise allows planners to improve systems and techniques, and reports are generated to assist with budgetary planning for the coming years. Sheriff Gregory J. Ahern created Urban Shield in 2007 for law enforcement tactical teams to become better prepared to respond to any act of terror or major critical incident and to establish better relationships between law enforcement, fire personnel and medical personnel.
The overarching goals of Urban Shield include striving for the capability to present a multi-layered training exercise to enhance the skills and abilities of regional first responders, as well as those responsible for coordinating and managing large-scale events. Urban Shield was implemented to identify and stretch regional resources to their limits, while expanding regional collaboration and building positive relationships. In addition, this exercise provides increased local business and critical infrastructure collaboration. Urban Shield improves regional disaster response capabilities and provides a platform for national and international first responders, as well as the private sector, to work efficiently and effectively together when critical incidents occur.