The Sheriff’s Office provides 24 hour public safety services
that includes a Law Enforcement division, Corrections division,
9-1-1 Central Dispatch, and Animal Control division. The
department provides 24 hour emergency and non-emergency
incident response, investigative services, traffic enforcement,
drug and alcohol enforcement, school liaison services, the DARE
program, and other community policing initiatives.
The department is staffed with approximately 55 employees and is
responsible for criminal justice services; inmate care, custody,
and control; animal control services; 9-1-1 dispatching of
police, fire, and EMS; Marine, Snowmobile, and ORV patrol; and
support services. Officers are also assigned to various teams
such as the County Dive Team, Emergency Response Team, Crime
Scene Technicians, Accident Investigators, and Fire
Investigators.
The office is staffed by three clerical employees who are
responsible for police reports, firearm registration and permit
issuance, civil paper filings, inmate housing, fingerprinting, and accounting
responsibilities.
The elected department head is three-term Sheriff Gary A.
Finstrom; Undersheriff Martin E. Dahlstrom, who also serves as
the Central Dispatch Director; Administrative Lieutenant Richard
H. Denison II of the Uniform Law Enforcement Division; Jail
Administrator Lieutenant Greg Webster of the Corrections
Division, and Detective Lieutenant Trent Taylor of the Detective Division.
