San Francisco Sheriff's Department
| City and County of San Francisco Sheriff's Department | |
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| Common name | San Francisco Sheriff's Department |
| Abbreviation | SFSD |
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| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1850 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | City and County of San Francisco in the state of California, U.S. |
| Legal jurisdiction | Consolidated city-county|City and county |
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| Sworn members | 850 |
| Sheriff responsible | Vicki Hennessy |
| Facilities | |
| Jails | 8 |
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| http://www.sfsheriff.com/ | |
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| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The San Francisco Sheriff's Department (SFSD), officially the City and County of San Francisco Sheriff's Department, is the sheriff's department for the City and County of San Francisco. The department has 850 deputized personnel, and support staff.
The primary function of the SFSD is to operate the system of county jails where there is an average population of 2,200 inmates, and a number of individuals on supervised release programs.
The SFSD also provides security and law enforcement in the following locations in San Francisco:
The current sheriff is Vicki Hennessy, the first female sheriff in the city-county (and the second in the nine-county Bay Area, after Virginia Clark of nearby Santa Clara County, as well as the fifth female sheriff in California, joining Margaret Mims Fresno County, Laurie Craig Glenn County and Sandra Hutchens Orange County.
The SFSD is a separate organization from the San Francisco Police Department. However, SFSD deputies and SFPD officers have all attended a POST-mandated police academy, and are duly sworn California peace officers.
The department has four divisions:
Administration and Programs Division: Performs functions related to personnel, training, backgrounds, in-jail programs, charter school, community programs and Prisoner Legal Services.
Custody Division: Performs custody operations, hospital ward security, classification and I.D. processing.
Field Support and Services Division: Performs civil processes, court security, central warrants, institutional patrol, investigations unit, building security, transportation, K-9, and emergency response and special events.
Management Division: Performs functions related to the overall management of the department to include fiscal operations, information technology services, facilities maintenance, and peer support.
San Francisco County operates eight jails, with approximately 55,000 people booked annually. Two of these jails are located in the Hall of Justice on Bryant Street. One of the jails is located in ward 7D/7L in San Francisco General Hospital. Two jails are located at the San Bruno Complex, located ten miles south of San Francisco.
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