Kern County Sheriff's Department

Kern County Sheriff's Office
Abbreviation KCSO

Patch of the Kern County Sheriff's Office

Badge of the Kern County Sheriff
Agency overview
Formed 1866
Employees 1,239
Annual budget $16.9 million (2011)
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction* County of Kern in the state of California, USA
Map of Kern County Sheriff's Office's jurisdiction.
Size 8,161 miles (13,134 km)
Population 839,631 (2010)
Legal jurisdiction As per operations jurisdiction.
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters 1350 Norris Road
Bakersfield, California
Deputies 572 (Deputy Sheriff)
336 (Detention Deputy)
Support Staffs 331
Agency executive Sheriff, Donny Youngblood
Units
Regions
Facilities
Substations
Airbases
Detentions
Website
kernsheriff.com
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

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 municipal cities, 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 Kern County, approximately 8,000 square miles. The agency 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.[1]


Organization

The Sheriff's Office is divided into the following units and subunits:[1]

Office of the Undersheriff

Administrative Services

Detention

Field Operation

Investigations

Volunteer Services

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:[2]

  • Boron
  • Buttonwillow
  • Delano
  • Frazier Park
  • Glennville
  • Kern Valley
  • Lamont
  • Mojave
  • Ridgecrest
  • Rosamond
  • Rosedale
  • Taft
  • Tehachapi
  • Walker Basin
  • Wasco

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Kern County Sheriff's Office, 27 officers and citizen volunteer have given their lives in service to the County of Kern.[3]

Officer Date of Death Details
Constable William Mettler November 6, 1873 Gunfire
Deputized Civilian Oliver McCoy July 3, 1891 Gunfire
Constable John Powers July 3, 1891 Gunfire
Deputy Sheriff William Tibbet April 19, 1903 Gunfire
Special Officer William Wiles December 19, 1924 Gunfire
Chief Deputy Sheriff Howard Knott October 6, 1945 Weather/Natural disaster
Sergeant Clayton Yearick November 15, 1949 Aircraft accident
Captain Roland Barbeau February 26, 1953 Automobile accident
Deputy Sheriff Wayne Trudell June 4, 1962 Heart attack
Reserve Deputy Sheriff Robert Garbner July 11, 1962 Automobile accident
Deputy Sheriff Samuel Moore July 11, 1962 Automobile accident
Deputy Sheriff Fredric Scheberies January 11, 1964 Fall
Deputy Sheriff Richard Slates December 21, 1966 Fall
Sergeant Donald Hodges April 14, 1969 Gunfire
Deputy Sheriff Terry Greet August 7, 1973 Drowned
Reserve Deputy Sheriff Charles Banning October 23, 1974 Drowned
Deputy Sheriff Michael Wilson October 11, 1981 Vehicular assault
Pilot Lansing Warren August 16, 1983 Aircraft accident
Reserve Deputy Sheriff Ray Mallory August 16, 1983 Aircraft accident
Deputy Sheriff Michael Bentley October 19, 1983 Vehicular assault
Deputy Sheriff Ray Bockman August 16, 1986 Aircraft accident
Sergeant Marvin Kline August 16, 1986 Aircraft accident
Pilot Douglas Moonen August 16, 1986 Aircraft accident
Deputy Sheriff Richard McHale March 3, 1989 Gunfire and Beaten
Deputy Sheriff James Willams October 19, 1994 Automobile accident
Deputy Sheriff Daniel Archuleta September 12, 2004 Automobile accident
Deputy Sheriff William “Joe” Hudnall, Jr. November 14, 2006 Vehicular assault
Deputy Sheriff James Throne May 23, 2008 Automobile accident

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. [4]

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. [5][6]

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. [7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Home page. Kern County Sheriff's Office. Accessed: 04-04-2012.
  2. ↑ Substations. Kern County Sheriff's Office. Accessed: 04-04-2012.
  3. ↑ Kern County. Officer Down Memorial Page. Accessed: 04-04-2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x794088567/Family-wins-4-5-million-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-county
  5. ↑ http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x568091070/Dad-who-died-during-arrest-begged-for-his-life-cops-take-witness-video
  6. ↑ http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1891153784/The-question-on-everyones-mind-Why-hasnt-video-footage-of-Silva-been-released
  7. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/09/kern-county-california-deputy-sexual-assault-settlement
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