The Kern County Sheriff's Office is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the County of Kern, California, in the United States. The agency provides: law enforcement within the county, maintain the jails used by both the county and municipalities, and provides search and rescue. The Sheriff's Office contains over 1,200 sworn officers and civilian employees. Its jurisdiction contains all of the unincorporated areas of the county, approximately 8,000 square miles. The headquarters is located at 1350 Norris Road in Bakersfield. There are 15 additional substations located throughout the county. The metro patrol area is divided into four regions: north, south, east, and west.
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Organization
The Sheriff's Office is divided into the following units and subunits:
Office of the Undersheriff
- Financial Services
- Planning & Research
- Air Support
Administrative Services
- Civil Section
- Communications
- Coroner
- Crime Prevention
- Human Resources
- Public Administration
- Records Section
- Technology Services
- Training Section
Detention
- Central Receiving Facility
- Court Services/Transportation
- Inmate Services
- Lerdo Jail Facilities (Max/Med Security, Minimum Security, Pre-Trail Facility)
- Work Release
Field Operation
- Metro Patrol
- Substations
Investigations
- Detective Section
- Special Enforcement
- Special Operations
Volunteer Services
- Citizen Volunteers
- Explorers
- Reserves
- Search & Rescue
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Station and substations
The Sheriff's Office is headquartered at 1350 Norris Road in Bakersfield. There are 15 additional substations located throughout the county. They are:
Fallen officers
Since the establishment of the Kern County Sheriff's Office, 27 officers and citizen volunteers have died while on duty.
Misconduct
In December 2010, Jose Lucero, a recovering drug addict with mental health issues, died after a confrontation with Kern County Sheriff's deputies. The family contended that the deputies beat Lucero to death. In November 2012, Lucero's family was awarded a $4.5 million judgment in a wrongful death lawsuit against the deputies, the sheriff's office, and Kern County.
On May 9, 2013, it was reported that Bakersfield resident David Sal Silva died after having been beaten by members of the agency. The assault on Silva was video recorded by multiple witnesses, although the resultant video was seized by law enforcement on the scene.
In December 2015, press reports indicated Kern County law enforcement officers killed more people per capita than any other county in the United States.
In May 2015, it was reported that the Kern Country Sheriff's Department settled two civil lawsuits in five days in misconduct cases. One settlement, reported to be in the amount of $1 million, was paid out to a survivor of a sexual assault committed by Kern County Sheriff's Deputy Gabriel Lopez. The Kern County Sheriff's office has been found to have a longstanding program of attempting cash payoffs to women who have accused deputies of sexual assault.
See also
- List of law enforcement agencies in California
References
External links
- Kern County Sheriff's Office
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