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| Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office | |
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| Common name | Milwaukee County Sheriff |
| Abbreviation | MCSO |
| Motto | "We Are Held To A Higher Standard...And We Ought To Be Proud" |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1835 |
| Employees | 550 |
| Annual budget | 50 million |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | United States |
| Size | 1190 mi |
| Population | 950,000 |
| Legal jurisdiction | Milwaukee County, Wisconsin |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | 821 W State Street Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States |
| Deputies | 288 |
| Civilian employees | 240 |
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| Agency executive |
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| Bureaus | 4
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| Facilities | |
| Stations | 5 |
| Boats | 2 |
| Drones | 4 |
| K9s | 12 |
| Website | |
| county.milwaukee.gov | |
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The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office is the principal law enforcement agency that serves Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It provides law enforcement services for the county's freeways and outlying lettered County Trunk Highways, the Milwaukee County Courthouse, the Milwaukee County Criminal Justice Facility and House of Corrections, the county-owned Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport, and the Milwaukee County Parks system, including all of the Milwaukee County lakefront, along with the county's few unincorporated sections.
At one time it was the largest sheriff's department in the state of Wisconsin, with about 750 deputy sheriffs. By 2015 the agency had reduced the number of sworn personnel to approximately 300. The reduction of sworn members was due to the county shifting jailing responsibilities to specific correction officers rather than sworn deputies.[1]
The current sheriff (who is elected by the public as a partisan office) is Denita R. Ball, who was sworn on October 24, 2022. Ball was elected as a Democrat and is the force's first female leader.
- ^ "25 Milwaukee County deputies earned more than $100,000 in 2013". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. April 21, 2014. Archived from the original on 23 April 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2015.