Cook County Sheriff
| Cook County Sheriff's Office | |
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| Abbreviation | CCSO |
Patch of the Cook County Sheriff's Office
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| Agency overview | |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | County (United States) of Cook County, Illinois in the state of Illinois, United States |
| Legal jurisdiction | Cook County, Illinois |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
| Sworn members | 6,900 at full strength |
| Sheriff responsible | Thomas Dart |
| Departments |
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| Website | |
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| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the principal law enforcement agency that serves Cook County, Illinois. It is the second largest sheriff's department in the United States, with over 6,900 members when at full operational strength. It is headed by the Sheriff of Cook County, currently Thomas Dart. Due to its size the Cook County Sheriff's Office divides its operations by task into several departments, the most recognizable of which are the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department, the Court Services Division, and the Cook County Sheriff's Department of Corrections.
All Cook County Sheriff's Deputies are Sworn and Illinois Certified Peace Officers with full statutory power of arrest, regardless of their particular job function or title. Like other sheriffs' departments in Illinois, the sheriff can provide all traditional law-enforcement functions, including county-wide patrol and investigations irrespective of municipal boundaries, even in the city of Chicago, but has traditionally limited its police patrol functions to unincorporated areas of the county which are the primary jurisdiction of a sheriff's department in Illinois.
Sheriff's Deputies outside of the patrol and investigations divisions provide the other services of the sheriff, such as service of process, fugitive apprehension, enforcing evictions and levies, securing courthouses, securing and operating the 9,000-plus detainee population of the Cook County Jail, transporting prisoners and overseeing offender rehabilitation programs.
Cook County has additional police departments that are not the responsibility of the sheriff. These include the Cook County Forest Preserve District Police and Cook County Hospital Police.
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is carved into several divisions.
Rank insignia for exempt positions that are above the exempt positions of commander and assistant chief include gold oak leaves and increasing numbers of gold stars worn on shirt collars and on shoulders of jackets. Rank insignia for commanders and assistant chiefs are gold eagles worn on the collars of the shirt and the shoulders of the jacket.
Rank insignia for lieutenants are gold bars worn on the collars of the shirt and the shoulders of the jacket. Rank insignia for sergeants are gold chevrons worn on the collars of the shirt and embroidered chevrons worn on the upper sleeves of shirts and jackets. Tenured officers will have gold hash-marks or stars on the lower left side of their long-sleeved shirts and jackets. Each mark represents five years of service. A star represents twenty years of service.
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