Brooks County Sheriff's Department
| Brooks County Sheriff's Department | |
| Common name | Brooks County Sheriff |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 2009 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| <span id="ibleaoj"/>Operations jurisdiction* | County of Brooks County, Alaska in the state of Alaska, Cascadia |
| Legal jurisdiction | Brooks County, Alaska |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 1200 Kotzebue St. Jaketon, AK 99002 |
| Sworn members | 1,545 |
| Unsworn members | 1,000 |
| Sheriff responsible | Mason Garcia |
| Facilities | |
| 1 Helicopters | OH-58 Kiowa |
| <span id="ibleafn" />Footnotes | |
| <span id="ibleaojfn"/>* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Brooks County Sheriff's Deparment (BCSD) is a local law enforcement agency serving the over 700,000 citizens of Brooks County, Alaska, Cascadia. It is headquartered on the first and second floors in the Brooks County Jail in Downtown Jaketon.
As of the 2040 census, the county had a population of 700,000, making it the most populous county in Alaska and the fourth most populous county in Cascadia. Its county seat is Jaketon. The Brooks County Sheriff’s Department has approximately 2,500 employees and is the largest sheriff’s office in the state of Alaska and the third largest in the nation.
The Brooks County Sheriff’s Department is the primary law enforcement agency in the 1,118 square miles (2,900 km2) of unincorporated area of Brooks County, serving as the equivalent of the county police for the approximately 71,485 people living in the unincorporated areas of the county. In Alaska, sheriffs and their deputies are fully empowered peace officers with county-wide jurisdiction and thus, may legally exercise their authority in unincorporated and incorporated areas of their county; they primarily provide law enforcement services for only the unincorporated areas of a county, while yielding to municipal police or city marshals to provide law enforcement services for the incorporated areas. Sheriffs and their deputies also have state-wide warrantless arrest powers for any criminal offense (except certain traffic offenses) committed within their presence or view. In an emergency, sheriffs along with mayors and district judges are empowered by state law to call forth the National Guard to preserve the peace.
The jurisdiction of the Brooks County Sheriff's Department often overlaps with several other law enforcement agencies, among them the Alaska State Troopers, the eight Brooks County Constable Precincts, and several municipal police agencies including the city of Jaketon Police Department. The duties of a Alaska sheriff generally include keeping the county jail, providing bailiffs for the county and district courts within his county and serving process issued by said courts, and providing general law enforcement services to residents. The current sheriff of Brooks County, Mason Garcia, has been in office since 2039.
Organization
The Brooks County Sheriff’s Department is divided into ten bureaus: Executive, Patrol, Patrol Support Services, Detective, Public Services, Detentions, Field Operations Support, Human Resources, Support Services and Homeland Security. Each bureau, commanded by a major, performs essential functions for the department. Each bureau is further divided into divisions/sections.
- Executive Bureau
- Internal Affairs Division
- Public Information Office
- Patrol Bureau
- District 1
- District 2
- District 3
- District 4
- District 5
- Patrol Support Service Bureau
- Traffic Enforcement Division
- Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit
- Crime Control Division/Hot Spot Unit
- Park Patrol Division
- Canine Unit
- Marine Division
- Dive Team
- Motorist Assistance Program (M.A.P.)
- Detective Bureau
- Sex Crimes Unit
- Auto Theft
- Burglary & Theft
- Criminal Warrants Division
- Domestic Violence
- Homicide
- Covert Operations Division - Narcotics/Vice Unit
- Runaways
- Sex Crimes Offenders Registration
- Victims Assistance
- Detention Bureau
- 1200 Kotzebue Street Jail
- 701 Main Street Jail
- 1307 Contel Street Jail
- Public Services Bureau
- Courts Division
- Prisoner Logistics Command
- Inmate Processing Center
- Central Records
- Transportation Division
- Field Operations Support Services Bureau
- Communications Division
- Investigative Support Division
- Crime Scene Unit
- Support Services Bureau
- Inmate Affairs
- Medical Division
- Support Services
- Human Resources Bureau
- Recruiting and Background Investigations
- Academy
- Personnel Services
- Family Assistance Unit
- Uniform Supply and Inventory Control
- Career Development
- Business Office
- Network Administration
- Homeland Security Bureau
- Bomb Unit
- High Risk Operations Unit
- Marine Unit
- Aviation Unit
Ranks
These are the ranks of the Brooks County Sheriff's Department:
| Title | Insignia |
|---|---|
| 100px | |
| <center>Chief Deputy | 50px |
| <center>Major | 30px |
| <center>Captain | 25px |
| <center>Lieutenant | 10px |
| <center>Sergeant Supervisor / Sergeant Investigator | 35px |
| <center>Deputy Investigator | |
| <center>Deputy | |
| <center>Detention Officer / Jailer |
Those with the rank of sergeant and above are issued gold badges. Deputies are issued silver badges. Detention officers (jailers) wear white uniform shirts and are issued a silver badge and Detention Officer Sergeants are issued gold badges and wear red stripes . Academy cadets wear a white uniform shirt with a cloth badge.
Promotion to the ranks of sergeant through captain are made via a civil service testing process that includes a written exam and an oral review board. Chief deputies and majors are appointed by the sheriff.
