Pima County Sheriff
| Pima County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | PCSD |
| Motto | Keeping the Peace Since 1865 |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1865 |
| Employees | 600 sworn deputies 872 civilian |
| Annual budget | $135,000,000 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | County of Pima, Arizona, United States |
| Size | 9,189 square miles |
| Population | 380,000 unincorporated, 1,000,000 County wide |
| Legal jurisdiction | Pima County |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 1750 East Benson Highway, Tucson, Arizona |
| Corrections and Civilians | Sheriff’s Auxiliary Volunteers (SAV) |
| Agency executive | Mark D. Napier, Sheriff |
| Facilities | |
| Substations | 6 |
| Airbases | 1 |
| Pima County Jails | 1 |
| Chevrolet Tahoe, Ford Crown Victoria, Ford Explorers | 400 estimate |
| Airplanes | 3 |
| Website | |
| Pima County Sheriff's Department | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Pima County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) is an American law enforcement agency that serves the unincorporated areas of Pima County, Arizona. It is the seventh largest sheriff's department in the nation. It operates six district offices and three smaller satellite offices. The Corrections Bureau, has four facilities which houses on average 1,850 inmates per day.
The department employs about 516 sworn officers and more than 872 civilian and corrections personnel and utilizes the services of over 400 volunteers. Its headquarters is on East Benson Highway in Tucson, Arizona.
Each division chief reports the Chief Deputy (undersheriff) currently held by Chris Radtke
The Department is divided into 4 Bureaus, each headed by a Chief, which are assisted by Captains who are assisted by Lieutenants.
OPERATIONS BUREAU: Chief Byron Gwaltney
Patrol Division:
SUPPORT OPERATIONS DIVISION
INVESTIGATIONS BUREAU: Chief Paul Wilson
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION
ADMINISTRATIVE BUREAU: Chief Karl Woolridge
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIVISION
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
CORRECTIONS BUREAU: Corrections Chief India Davis
The Corrections Bureau is divided into two divisions which are further divided into sections
The Corrections Department uses the same rank and insignia.
In 2012 Sheriff Dupnik along with input from the department staff went from Class B uniforms to Class C uniforms. These uniforms are made for comfort and lightweight. The word SHERIFF is in big letters on the backs of the beige shirts, along with dark green patches. The badges are sewed on over the left chest area which prevents being ripped or snagged on. The dark green pants are made of a police proprietary cloth which are light-weight and is almost elastic. The corrections division wears a similar uniform but with brown pants and brown patches to differentiate the two divisions.
The Sheriff's Department implemented a $92 Million voter approved bond to create the Pima County Wireless Integrated Network which went live in April 2014. The "PCWIN" is a multi-agency radio system in which 30 public safety departments in Pima County can switch to one channel and communicate. In addition to the new radio system, funds were also allocated to build a new communications center known as the Pima Emergency Communications and Operations Center (PECOC) and remodeled its back-up center at the Thomas O. Price service center, which is the Tucson Police/Fire communications center. The communications center is located in Tucson's midtown area. It also houses the Drexel Heights Fire Dispatch center, which dispatches for rural Fire Departments. The new PCWIN radio system uses the APX 7000 & 7500 radios [1] on the state of the art digital Project 25 Phase II system, with antennas placed strategically throughout Pima County.
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