- Middlesex County Sheriff's Office
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Middlesex County Sheriff's Office Abbreviation MSO Agency overview Formed 1692 Legal personality Governmental: Government agency Jurisdictional structure Operations jurisdiction* State of Massachusetts, USA Legal jurisdiction County of Middlesex, Massachusetts General nature Operational structure Headquarters Medford, Massachusetts Sheriff responsible Peter Koutoujian Facilities Lockups 2 Patrol Vehicles Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor Boats 1 Footnotes * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. The Middlesex County Sheriff's Office is a law enforcement agency for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The agency's primary responsibility is oversight of the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica, Massachusetts and the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The office of sheriff was created in 1643 with the establishment of Middlesex County.
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Middlesex County sheriffs
This is a list of current and former Sheriffs for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[1]
Capt. Timothy Phillips 1692–1702 Capt. Samuel Gookin 1702–1714 Col. Edmund Goffe 1714–1717 Samuel Gookin(2nd term) 1717–1729 Samuel Dummer 1729–1731 Richard Foster, Jr. 1731–1764 Col. David Phips 1764–1775 Col. James Prescott 1775–1781 Col. Loammi Baldwin 1781–1794 Maj. Joseph Hosmer 1794–1808 Gen. William Hildreth, Jr. 1808–1813 Gen. Nathaniel Austin, Jr. 1813–1831 Benjamin Franklin Varnum 1831–1841 Col. Samuel Chandler 1841–1851 Fisher Ames Hildreth 1851–1853 John Sheppard Keyes 1853–1859 Charles Kimball 1859–1879 Eben Winslow Fiske 1879–1883 Henry Greenwood Cushing 1883–1899 John Robert Fairbain 1899–1934 Joseph M. McElroy 1934–1947 Loring R. Kew 1947-1947 Louis E. Boutwell 1948–1949 Howard W. Fitzpatrick 1949–1970 John J. Buckley 1970–1980 Edward F. Hennebury, Jr. 1980–1984 John J. McGonigle 1985–1994 R. Bradford Bailey 1994–1996 James DiPaola 1996–2010 John Granara (acting) 2010–2011 Peter Koutoujian 2011 - Present Training
All Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff recruits go through a rigorous 21-week training academy to prepare themselves as corrections officers of the county. At the academy, the cadets are taught subjects such as criminal law, foreign language skills, communication skills, disorder management, etc. Also, every recruit is brought to the Massachusetts Fire Academy in Stow, MA for a day to learn the techniques and some tips on firefighting to use if a fire was ever set in one of the jails.
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References
- ^ "History of Middlesex Sheriff's Office" Middlesex Special Sheriff 2009-10-20 http://www.middlesexsheriff.org/about_history.htm
External links
Categories:- Law enforcement agencies of Massachusetts
- Government of Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- County law enforcement agencies of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts sheriffs
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