Alameda County Sheriff's Office
| 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 Sheriff'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 Sheriff'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 Sheriff's Office operates a police academy and training exercises for the greater law enforcement community in the Bay Area.
Developed by former Alameda County Assistant Sheriff James Baker, Urban Shield is a weapons expo and first response training exercise that began in 2007. The goals of the program are to prepare law enforcement tactical teams, including SWAT teams, to respond to crises and coordinate efforts between law enforcement, fire personnel and medical personnel. An additional purpose is to assess the policies, procedures, organization, equipment and training of attending personnel.
Hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office, Urban Shield is the largest urban full scale readiness exercise in the United States. Police, fire, HAZMAT, EMS and EOD teams from all over the nation train in multiple scenarios over a continuous 48-hour program. In the first year, scenarios included an active shooter on the UC Berkeley campus, an airplane hijacking, a maritime interdiction, and a 20-mile hike. Since 2012, the Bay Area UASI tests portions of the Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program as part of the full scale readiness exercise, such as the regional mass fatality plan.
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