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Overview of Services and Strength

  • Full time law enforcement services, including patrol, traffic, animal control and criminal investigative duties
  • Service of criminal and civil process/papers
  • Neighborhood watch programs
  • Crime prevention/education programs, including anti-drug campaigns such as DARE
  • Drug enforcement
  • About 150 full-time employees
  • Apprehension of wanted fugitives

Warrants are updated daily Monday thru Friday.

Download or view the Victim Information Pamphlet.

Recent Sheriff News

    Follow the Sheriff on Twitter, or find past media releases in the archive.

    Sign up for Code RED messages: Get evacuation notices, bio-terrorism alerts, missing child reports and more by phone.

    The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is working to reunite families and find lost children. Please help us and them to find missing and exploited Kansas children.

    The Sheriff’s Office is pleased to provide access to Offenderwatch, a program that helps track registered offenders living or working in Shawnee County.