- Cook County Sheriff's Office
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Cook County Sheriff's Office Abbreviation CCSO 
Patch of the Cook County Sheriff's Office. Agency overview Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Jurisdictional structure Operations jurisdiction* County (US) of Cook in the state of Illinois, United States Legal jurisdiction Cook County, Illinois General nature Operational structure Headquarters Chicago, Illinois Sworn members 6,900 Sheriff responsible Thomas Dart Departments 8- Cook County Sheriff's Boot Camp
- Cook County Department of Corrections
- Cook County Sheriff's Court Services Department
- Department of Community Supervision and Intervention
- Cook County Sheriff's Police Department
- Department of Women's Justice Services
- Jail Diversion and Crime Prevention Division
- Office Of Professional Review
Website Official website of the Cook County Sheriff's Office Footnotes * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. The Cook County Sheriff's Office is a local 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. 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 8 departments, the most recognizable of which is the Cook County Sheriff's Court Services Department. The much smaller Cook County Sheriff's Police Department provides traditional police services in unincorporated Cook County, while the Department of Corrections staffs the Cook County Department of Corrections.
All Cook County Sheriff's Police Officers are Cook County Sheriff's deputies, but not all Cook County Sheriff's deputies are Sheriff's Police Officers. Police Officer is a job function and title within the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department. All Cook County Sheriff's Deputies have police powers regardless of their particular job function or title. Like other sheriffs' departments in Illinois, the Sheriff's Police 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 because unincorporated areas are the primary jurisdiction of a Sheriff's Department in Illinois.
The Sheriff's Police patrol services are often not required in incorporated cities because the cities such as Chicago have established their own police departments. The 500-600 member Sheriff's Police Department would not have the personnel necessary to supply full police services to all incorporated areas in Cook County, especially in a municipality such as Chicago.
Sheriff's deputies outside of the Sheriff's Police provide the other services of the sheriff, such as service of process, effecting evictions, guarding the various courthouses in Cook County, running and guarding the 9,800-detainee Cook County Jail, transporting prisoners and overseeing other offender rehabilitation programs.
The county has additional police who are not employed by the Sheriff of Cook County and who are thus not deputy sheriffs. These include the Cook County Forest Preserve District Police and Cook County Hospital Police.
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Sheriff's Office Departments
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is divided into eight departments.[1]
- The Cook County Sheriff's Boot Camp is designed to provide non-violent offenders a strict detention program based on military discipline, fundamental vocational skills, education and alcohol/substance abuse treatment. In addition, the Boot Camp features an 8-month long post-detention supervision program where participants must return to the Boot Camp on a daily basis to continue educational programming.
- The Department of Corrections is one of the largest single-site pre-trial holding facilities in the country. Sheriff's Correctional Officers are responsible for the security of more than 9,000 detainees, most of whom are awaiting trial in the criminal court system.
- The Court Services Department provides security for all courtrooms and aides judges and other court officials in the orderly operation of daily business. In addition to providing courtroom security, deputy sheriffs operate metal detectors at the entrance of each of the courthouse facilities where many arrests are made every year of individuals attempting to bring weapons and contraband into said facilities.
- The Department of Community Supervision and Intervention draws its population from the DOC and from the court system. Each of DCSI’s divisions is unique in its operations, but together they form a cooperative and mutually supportive team that offers a sliding scale of corrections alternatives from community service to incarceration.
- The Sheriff's Police Department is charged with patrolling unincorporated areas of Cook County. Approximately 109,000 people live in unincorporated communities. Sheriff's Police also assist suburban police departments in routine police operations as well as drug, Bomb Squad, vice, and gang crimes operations.
- The Department of Women's Justice Services is a newly created department within the Cook County Sheriff's Office which administers gender responsive drug treatment programs for female offenders.
- The Jail Diversion and Crime Prevention Division was designed to make the Cook County Sheriff’s Office more useful and accessible to residents.
- The Office Of Professional Review investigates allegations of various types of misconduct throughout the Sheriff's Office.
Department Of Corrections
Rank structure and insignia
Rank insignia for Lieutenant and up are metal pins worn on the collars of the shirt and the shoulders of the jacket. Rank insignia for Sergeant are metal pins worn on the collars of the shirt and embroidered chevrons worn on the upper sleeves. Tenured officers will have gold hash-marks on the lower left side of their long-sleeved shirts. Each mark represents five years of service. All officers assigned to the Department of Corrections are also Deputy Sheriffs.
Title Insignia Executive Director 1st Assistant Executive Director Assistant Executive Director of Security Assistant Executive Director of Operations Assistant Executive Director of Program Services Assistant Executive Director of Policy Assistant Executive Director of Records Assistant Divisional Superintendent Correctional Commander 
Correctional Lieutenant 
Correctional Sergeant 
Correctional Officer Court Services Division
Rank structure and insignia
Rank insignia for Lieutenant and up are metal pins worn on the collars of the shirt and the shoulders of the jacket. Rank insignia for Sergeant are metal pins worn on the collars of the shirt and embroidered chevrons worn on the upper sleeves. Tenured officers will have gold hash-marks on the lower left side of their long-sleeved shirts. Each mark represents five years of service.
Title Insignia Chief Deputy Assistant Chief Deputy Deputy Sheriff Lieutenant Deputy Sheriff Sergeant Investigator II (DCSI) Deputy Sheriff Sheriff's Police
Rank structure and insignia
Rank insignia for Lieutenant and up are metal pins worn on the collars of the shirt and the shoulders of the jacket. Rank insignia for Sergeant are metal pins worn on the collars of the shirt and embroidered chevrons worn on the upper sleeves. Tenured officers will have gold hash-marks on the lower left side of their long-sleeved shirts. Each mark represents five years of service.
Title Insignia Chief Of Police Commander County Police Lieutenant County Police Sergeant County Police Officer Office of Professional Review
Title Executive Director Assistant Executive Director Unit Director Assistant Unit Director Senior Investigator Investigator Fallen officers
Since the establishment of the Cook County Sheriff Office 12 officers have died in the line of duty.[2][3][4]
Officer Date of Death Details Deputy Sheriff Frank E. Nye Thursday, December 22, 1898 Gunfire Policeman Sam F. Kaiser Sunday, April 20, 1930 Motorcycle accident Policeman Frederick C. Bryant Saturday, May 24, 1930 Motorcycle accident Policeman Meyer Joseph (Jack) Lapine Monday, September 5, 1932 Motorcycle accident Policeman Robert (Ruby) Schanbaum Saturday, August 11, 1934 Vehicular assault Policeman Frank J. Christian Sunday, October 19, 1941 Vehicular assault Deputy Sheriff Joseph Law Sr. Saturday, September 21, 1974 Gunfire Investigator John A. Rusnak Wednesday, August 3, 1977 Automobile accident Investigator Michael W. Ridges Thursday, October 17, 1985 Gunfire Correctional Officer Jeffery Blakey Tuesday, January 5, 1988 Assault Deputy Sheriff Alfred Brown Jr. Tuesday, November 17, 1992 Assault Patrol Officer James F. Knapp Wednesday, January 4, 2006 Automobile accident See also
References
- ^ Cook County Sheriff's Office Departments page
- ^ The Officer Down Memorial Page
- ^ The Officer Down Memorial Page
- ^ The Officer Down Memorial Page
External links
Categories:- Law enforcement agencies of Illinois
- Cook County, Illinois
- Sheriffs' departments of Illinois
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