The city of Gretna, Louisiana, the parish seat of Jefferson Parish, made news after its police force participated, along with Crescent City Connection Police and Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies, in a road block on the Crescent City Connection Bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina.

Police Chief Willie Frazier disbanded the force " until things calm down ," turning patrols over the town back to the Sheriff's Department, which had patrolled the town until the 1990s.

There is no city police force, with policing provided by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Bishop maintains its own police force ( the only one in Inyo County ), but also has a substation of the Inyo County Sheriff's Department on the outskirts of the City.

The area is patrolled by the California Highway Patrol, Orange County Sheriff's Department, and the Coto de Caza security force.

Somewhat unusual for a community of its size, the town maintains its own police force, while other larger communities have opted to contract out with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department for public safety.

The high homicide rate in 2010 prompted then-Mayor Wendell N. Butler, who previously served as the city's police chief before becoming mayor, to implement a " State of Emergency ," implementing 12-hour shifts for the entire city police force, assistance from both the Delaware County Sheriff's Office and the Pennsylvania State Police, and a 9PM to 6AM curfew in five of the city's crime hotspots.

Law enforcement is provided by the Hartley County Sheriff's Office as the City does not have a police force of its own.

The law enforcement task force — Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Glendale Police Department — began to assume that more than one person was responsible for the murders, even though the media continued to use the singular, Hillside Strangler.

A transit police force may consist of officers employed directly by a transit system, such as the Amtrak Police, or it may exist as a specialized unit of a local police force, such as the Transit Police Services Bureau of the Orange County, California Sheriff's Department, which serves the Orange County Transportation Authority or South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Police Service which serves the transit system of southern British Columbia, Canada.

Police departments throughout the United States including the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in California have come to believe that, when executed properly, PIT is an intermediate force option that can safely end a pursuit.

The Sheriff's department shares the facility with the city of Dubuque's police force.

The Bidwell area does not have a police force of its own, and is instead patrolled by the Gallia County Sheriff's Department.

On December 10, 2008, the California Highway Patrol announced its officers, along with San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies and US Marine Corps Military Police, would jointly staff some sobriety and drivers license checkpoints.

Lee's widespread popularity gave him some political capital in the face of criticism about his management of the Sheriff's Office.

The official story is that Salazar was killed by a tear gas canister fired by a member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department into the Silver Dollar Café at the conclusion of the August 29 rally, leading some to claim that he had been targeted.

He combined his interest in photography and film-making and his interest in police work when he convinced some friends with the San Jose Sheriff's Office Narcotics unit to let him film their work.

Both of the Sheriff's deputies whom Brown was convicted of shooting were African-American.

He once hunted down a killer whom the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department failed to catch, resulting in an innocent man winning acquittal at his fifth trial.

The Sea Ranch Lakes Police Department employs detectives within its ranks, who are responsible for conducting most criminal investigations ; however, whenever a major felony occurs in the village such as a homicide or other criminal case that may involve other jurisdictions, the Broward Sheriff's Office is called in for assistance to pursue a joint investigation with a team approach.

Nichols mother also emailed the Fulton County Sheriff's Office to tell them she believed her son may try to take an officer's weapon.

Gradually Rugby's fame spread it was no longer desirable to have only local boys attending and the nature of the school shifted, and so a new school – Lawrence Sheriff Grammar School – was founded in 1878 to continue Lawrence Sheriff's original intentions ; that school receives a substantial proportion of the endowment income from Lawrence Sheriff's estate every year.

Of the five officers who have died in service of the Clay County Sheriff's Office, four died in these two incidents.

The Sheriff's Department fields about 175 deputy sheriffs who patrol the unincorporated areas of the county, and also all municipalities that do not have their own police departments.

In addition to the Rabun County Sheriff's Office, the towns of Clayton, Mountain City, Dillard, Sky Valley, and Tallulah Falls all have their own police departments.

Of the seven Hot Springs police officers that have been killed while in service of the department, three died during that gunfight, killed by deputies of the Garland County Sheriff's Office.

The Department was also the first to arrive and provide assistance to a helicopter which crashed on the property of the Sea Ranch Beach Club, and also has assisted the United States Border Patrol and the Broward Sheriff's Office with detaining and pursuing illegal immigrants that have come ashore into the village, and also provide emergency police back-up to neighboring Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

Carthage is the only city in Illinois to have all of the jails that were ever used still in existence: The old jail, called the Mormon Jail ; the jail next built which was also the Sheriff's residence and is on the south side of the Courthouse square ; and the new jail, located on Highway 136 on the west side of the City.

** In California, several urban counties ( including Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Diego ) once maintained separate county Marshal's Offices which served as court officers similar to US Marshals, but mainly for the Municipal Court system ( this system was abolished by state law in 2000, when the sheriffs of those counties announced that those counties ' marshals would be absorbed into their departments ), thus, many have been merged into or taken over by the local County Sheriff's Office, with the exceptions of San Benito County, well south of the San Francisco Bay Area, Shasta County and Trinity County both located in Northern California.

New York Police Department ( NYPD ) is known to have an OSINT unit, as does the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, housed within the Emergency Operations Bureau and affiliated with the LA Joint Regional Intelligence Center.

** Sheriff's Security Officers in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, such as peace officer (" POST ") training, have limited peace officer powers while on duty and are outside the authority of the state security guard licensing agency, the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services ( BSIS ) with respect to their work for the County.

" We have 2, 000 sworn officers, and there is no way we have the resources to do what Perverted Justice did for the NBC Dateline sting ( where 51 offenders were arrested in three days )," says Lt. Chad Bianco of the Riverside County ( California ) Sheriff's Department.

By the late 1980s, as fear of crime became Jeffersonians ' No. 1 concern, Lee sensed his continued political fortunes would have less to do with reforming the Sheriff's Office than in making his suburban constituents feel safe from the big city ills.

The LVMPD and the agencies that existed prior to consolidation to form the agency, the Clark County Sheriff's Office, and City of Las Vegas Police Department have had officers killed in action.

Burke is a former officer for the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Florida who would become an amateur boxer in Jacksonville's Club 5 and Club Plush where he claims to have had a 98 – 1 win / loss record.

The Funks have also had problems with Marion County Sheriff's Department.

* Special provisions apply to Chambers and Randall counties ( must have no fewer than two nor more than six precincts ) and to Mills, Reagan, and Roberts ( the Constable office is abolished, with the Sheriff's office performing all duties ).

The Sheriff's deputy was found to have mistakenly loaded the wrong type of tear gas round.

Many following scenes would then take place in a fictional town known as Dry Gulch, where guests would have witnessed a musical show ( a bank robbery, prisoners escaping the Sheriff's cells via an underground tunnel, a saloon with a cowboy on horseback on its roof, plus ten other characters including a bartender trying to shoot the intruder off the roof, three saloon girls, and other cowboys hooting and hollering.

In late September, 2009 press reports indicated that the Alexander County Sheriff's office had had five of its seven police cars repossessed as payments had not been made.

* In the comic book series the Walking Dead, the main character, Sheriff's Deputy Rick Grimes, wakes up in a nearby abandoned hospital to discover that Cynthiana, his hometown, has been overrun with zombies and nearly the entire towns population has been killed or evacuated.

According to the Skagit County Sheriff's Department in a press release, three pre-teen boys admitted during an interview that they had been playing with lighters and set a mattress left inside the building on fire.

"... First, then, you are to suppose that the list of names has been delivered safely by the Recorder to the Sheriff, and been by him duly numbered, and the number of each name written on a separate card — that the list, in fact, the whole list, and nothing but the list, is now actually in the ballot-box, faithfully numbered to correspond with the Sheriff's book — you must suppose all this, albeit I know a rather violent supposition ;— and then, in presence of the attorneys for the Crown and for the accused criminal, forty-eight cards are to be taken out of the box.

The Sheriff's Deputy, Cecil Price, had been accused by parishioners of stopping their caravan, and forcing the deacons to kneel in the headlights of their own cars, while they were beaten with rifle butts.

Transit Security personnel often work in conjunction with deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Transit Services Bureau, which has been the exclusive contract provider of dedicated law enforcement services for Metro since 2003.

The turning away of the Sheriff's helicopters by the Forest Service came under severe attack by the public, media and elected officials, believing that an opportunity to prevent the fire from becoming out of control had been lost.

* Ollie to the Sheriff's wife: " A lot of weather we've been having lately "

Schaefer had been dismissed from the office of the Martin County, Florida Sheriff's Department earlier in the year, and was awaiting trial after a failed kidnapping, on July 22, of two other teenage girls.

In the case of the Sheriff's death, no provision for succession had been provided for in the law, and the Sheriff's deputies lost all their legal powers until the next election.

She has been honored by the LAPD, LA County Board of Supervisors, LA City, and LA County Sheriff's Department.