Orange County Sheriff's Department (California)
| Orange County Sheriff's Department | |
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| Common name | Orange County Sheriff |
| Abbreviation | OCSD |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | March 11, 1889 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | County of Orange in the state of California, U.S. |
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| Map of Orange County Sheriff's Department's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 948 square miles (2,460 km2) |
| Population | 3,010,759 |
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| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Santa Ana, California |
| Deputies | 1460 |
| Civilians | 1446 |
| Agency executive | Sandra Hutchens, Sheriff |
| Facilities | |
| Jails | 4 |
| Helicopters | 5 |
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| OCSD | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD) is the law enforcement agency serving Orange County, California. It currently serves the unincorporated areas of Orange County and thirteen contract cities in the county: Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Stanton, Villa Park, and Yorba Linda.
The agency also provides law enforcement services to the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) system, and John Wayne Airport. OCSD also runs Orange County's Harbor Patrol, which provides law enforcement, marine fire fighting, search and rescue, and underwater search and recovery services along the county's 42 miles (68 km) of coastline and in the county's three harbors (Dana Point, Newport and Huntington).
The Orange County Sheriff's Department came into existence on August 1, 1889, when a proclamation of the state legislature separated the southern portion of Los Angeles County and created Orange County. The entire department consisted of Sheriff Richard Harris and Deputy James Buckley, with an operating budget of $1,200 a year and a makeshift jail in the rented basement of a store in Santa Ana. They served a sparsely populated county of 13,000 residents, scattered throughout isolated townships and settlements. The problems faced by the first sheriff were typical for a frontier county – tracking down outlaws, controlling vagrancy, and attempting to maintain law and order across 782 square miles (2,030 km2) of farmland and undeveloped territory.
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