County police
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County police are the police of a county in the United States, Sweden and England (formerly throughout Great Britain). In Canada, some counties maintain a similar County Patrol.
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[edit] Sweden
All of the 21 Counties of Sweden contains a County Police Department of the Swedish Police Service.
[edit] United Kingdom
In England, the police are divided into regional forces based on counties (sometimes amalgamations of two or three counties), which all provide full services throughout their districts.
Police forces in Scotland and Wales also used to be organised on a county basis, but are now amalgamated into a number of larger regional forces: eight in Scotland and four in Wales.
Ireland has never been policed on a county basis, and Northern Ireland now has a single police force, the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
[edit] United States
Depending on the jurisdiction, in the United States, county police tend to exist only in metropolitan counties and have countywide jurisdiction. In some areas, there is a sheriff's department which only handles minor issues such as service of papers such as a constable in other areas, along with security for the local courthouse. In other areas, there are no county police and the local sheriff is the exclusive law enforcement agency and acts as both sheriff and county police, which is much more common than there being a separate county police force. County police tend to fall into three broad categories:
- Full service police departments, which provide the full spectrum of police services to the entire county, irrespective of local communities, and may provide contractual security police services to special districts within the county.
- Hawaii - Hawaii has only county police, there are no local police.
- Limited service police departments, which provide services to unincorporated areas of the county (and may provide services to some incorporated areas by contract), and usually provide contractual security police services to special districts within the county.
- Restricted service police departments, which provide security police duties to county owned and operated facilities and parks. Some may also perform some road patrol duties on county built and maintained roads, and provide support to municipal police departments in the county. County detectives, which are maintained in the northeastern states by county attorneys' offices, also fall within this category.
[edit] US Departments
There are eighty county police departments in the United States, including:
[edit] A
- Albemarle County Police Department, Albemarle County, Virginia - full service
- Allegheny County Police Department, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - restricted service
- Anne Arundel County Police Department, Anne Arundel County, Maryland - limited service
- Arlington County Police Department, Arlington County, Virginia - full service
- Athens-Clarke County Police Department, Clarke County, Georgia - full service
[edit] B
- Baltimore County Police, Baltimore County, Maryland - full service
- Bergen County Police Department, [1] Bergen County, New Jersey - limited service
- Broome County Sheriff's Department, Broome County, New York - full service
- Broomfield Police Department, City and County of Broomfield, Colorado - full service
[edit] C
- Camden County Park Police Department, Camden County, New Jersey - restricted service
- Chesterfield County Police Department, Chesterfield County, Virginia - full service
- Clark County Park Police Department, Clark County, Nevada - restricted service
- Clayton County Police Department, Clayton County, Georgia - limited service
- Cobb County Police Department, Cobb County, Georgia - limited service
- Cook County Sheriff's Police Department, Cook County, Illinois - limited service
[edit] D
- DeKalb County Police Department, DeKalb County, Georgia - limited service
- Delaware County Courthouse and Park Police Department, Delaware County, Pennsylvania - restricted service
- Denver Police Department, City and County of Denver, Colorado - full service
- Dougherty County Police Department, Dougherty County, Georgia - limited service
[edit] F
- Fairfax County Police Department, Fairfax County, Virginia - limited service
- Floyd County Police Department, Floyd County, Georgia - limited service
- Fulton County Police Department, Fulton County, Georgia - limited service
[edit] G
- Gaston County Police Department, Gaston County, North Carolina - limited service
- Glynn County Police Department, Glynn County, Georgia - limited service
- Gwinnett County Police Department, Gwinnett County, Georgia - limited service (serves unincorporated Gwinnett County, and the cities of Berkeley Lake, Buford, Dacula, Grayson, Rest Haven, and Sugar Hill)
[edit] H
- Hawaii County Police Department, Hawaii County, Hawaii - full service
- Henrico County Division of Police, Henrico County, Virginia - full service
- Henry County Police Department, Henry County, Georgia - limited service
- Honolulu Police Department, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii - full service
- Horry County Police Department, Horry County, South Carolina - limited service
- Howard County Police Department, Howard County, Maryland - full service
[edit] I
[edit] J
- James City County Police Department, James City County, Virginia - full service
[edit] K
- Kauai Police Department, Kauai County, Hawaii - full service
- Kenton County Police Department, Kenton County, Kentucky - limited service
[edit] L
- Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Clark County, Nevada - limited service
- Lexington Division of Police, Fayette County, Kentucky - full service
- Los Angeles County Police Department, Los Angeles County, California - restricted service
- Lake County Sheriff's Office, lake County, Illinois
[edit] M
- Maryland-National Capital Park Police Department, Montgomery County, Maryland and Prince George's County, Maryland - restricted service
- Maui Police Department, Maui County, Hawaii - full service
- Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, Davidson County, Tennessee - limited service
- Miami-Dade Police Department, Miami-Dade County, Florida - limited service
- Montgomery County Department of Police, Montgomery County, Maryland - limited service
- Morris County Park Police Department, Morris County, New Jersey - restricted service
[edit] N
- Nassau County Police Department, Nassau County, New York - limited service
- New Castle County Police Department, New Castle County, Delaware - full service
- New Orleans Police Department, Orleans Parish, Louisiana - full service
[edit] O
- Oldham County Police Department, Oldham County, Kentucky - limited service
[edit] P
- Philadelphia Police Department, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania - full service
- Pima County Park Police Department, Pima County, Arizona - restricted service
- Prince George's County Police Department, Prince George's County, Maryland - limited service
- Prince William County Police Department, Prince William County, Virginia - limited service
- Polk County Police Department, Polk County, Georgia - limited service
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Riley County Police Department, Riley County, Kansas - full service
- Roanoke County Police Department, Roanoke County, Virginia - full service
[edit] S
- St. Joseph County Police Department, St. Joseph County, Indiana - limited service
- St. Louis County Police Department, St. Louis County, Missouri - full service
- San Francisco Police Department, City and County of San Francisco, California - full service
- Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, Chatham County, Georgia - limited service (serves the city of Savannah and unincorporated Chatham County)
- Suffolk County Park Police Department, Suffolk County, New York - restricted service
- Suffolk County Police Department, Suffolk County, New York - limited service
[edit] T
[edit] U
- Union County Police Department, Union County, New Jersey - restricted service
[edit] V
[edit] W
- Westchester County Department of Public Safety [2], Westchester County, New York - restricted service
- Westmoreland County Park Police Department, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - restricted service
