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The 'San Francisco Sheriff's Department' (SFSD) is the sheriff's department for the City and County of San Francisco. The department has 850 deputized personnel, and support staff. The primary function of the SFSD is to operate the county jail system. There is an average population of 1900 inmates in the SF County Jails, as well as many on supervised release programs. The SFSD also provides security to the civil and criminal courts, and law enforcement services to San Francisco's landmark City Hall, and the City and County's Emergency Communications & Dispatch center. After a two year transition, in 2004, the SFSD began providing law enforcement services to San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital, and several public health clinics throughout the City and County.
The SFSD should not be confused with the San Francisco Police Department, which is another law enforcement agency within San Francisco.
Sheriff Michael Hennessey
Mike Hennessey 25th year in office Anniversary Commemorative baseball cards. Rookie season and current.
The department is headed by Sheriff Michael Hennessey. Elected in 1980, he has served the longest term of any sitting Sheriff in California.[1] As Sheriff, he has won nationwide recognition for the outstanding success of his recruitment program for women and minorities, including gay men and lesbians. His staff reflects the diversity of San Francisco's population. The department has the highest representation of women and minorities of any major law enforcement agency in the nation -- more than 70% of total sworn staff.
He has increased employee training more than 500% and has received 15 consecutive annual awards from the state for "Excellence in Training." He is one of the nation's pioneers in establishing "new generation/direct supervision" jails that have proven to be safer and more cost effective than traditional facilities, typically designed around linear cell blocks.
Sheriff Hennessey's pioneering efforts to rehabilitate prisoners include a wide range of prisoner education and substance abuse recovery programs such as Roads To Recovery, RSVP Resolve To Stop The Violence Project and 5 Keys Charter School.
Other programs include horticulture, an organic gardening therapy project, and Tree Corps, which offers ex-offenders employment by planting and caring for trees in major thoroughfares in San Francisco.
Most recently, Sheriff Hennessey has worked with victim rights advocates to create Resolve to Stop the Violence (RSVP), an anti-violence curriculum for prisoners who have been convicted of violent crimes.
Divisions
The Department has four divisions:
'Administration and Programs Division: '
Performs functions related to personnel, training, backgrounds, in-jail programs, Charter School, Community Programs and Prisoner Legal Services.
'Custody Division: '
Performs custody operations, hospital ward security, classification and I.D. processing.
'Field Support and Services Division: '
Performs civil processes, court security, central warrants, institutional patrol, building security, transportation, K-9, and emergency response and special events.
'Management Division: '
Performs centralized line functions related to the overall management of the department to include fiscal operations, information technology services, facilities maintenance, and peer support.
County Jails
San Francisco County operates seven jails, with approximately 55,000 people booked annually. Two of these jails are located in the Hall of Justice on Bryant Street. One of the jails is located in ward 7D/7L in San Francisco General Hospital. Two jails are located at the San Bruno Complex, located ten miles south of San Francisco.
The newest San Francisco jail complex is not located in San Francisco at all. It is located in an unincorporated part of San Mateo County between Pacifica and San Bruno. [2] The new jail opened in 2006 and will be named County Jail #5, when all San Francisco's jails will be renumbered. This jail replaced old County Jail #3, which at the time of closing was the oldest operating county jail in California. County Jail #3 stands vacant, and will be demolished.
Prior to the new facility opening, the most modern San Francisco Jail was the one located near the Hall of Justice on Seventh Street. Opened in 1994, the complex is actually two jails. This main complex jail is a "''direct supervision facility [that] has become a national model for program-oriented prisoner rehabilitation.''" The second, which acts as the main intake and release facility for the city, was praised by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Allan Temko as ''"a stunning victory for architectural freedom over bureaucratic stupidity."''[3]
The San Francisco Hall of Justice Complex. CJ#1 & #2 on 6th and 7th floors, and CJ#8 & #9 in the rounded building to the rear.
Intake & Release
★ County Jail #9 (425 7th Street, near Hall of Justice, San Francisco)
Classification
★ County Jail #8 (Hall of Justice, 6th Floor, San Francisco)
Housing
★ County Jail #1 (Hall of Justice, 6th Floor, San Francisco)
★ County Jail #2 (Hall of Justice, 7th Floor, San Francisco)
★ County Jail #3 (San Bruno) (Vacant and due for destruction)
★ County Jail #5 (San Bruno) (New state of the art facility opened in 2006)
★ Ward 7D/7L (San Francisco General Hospital)
★ County Jail #8 (425 7th Street, San Francisco)
Field Services
Current design of the San Francisco Sheriff's patrol vehicles
Institutional Patrol/Building Security
The Department provides patrol and law enforcement services to San Francisco General Hospital and Laguna Honda Hospital in an agreement with the Dept. of Public Health finished in 2004 that absorbed the personnel and functions of the Institutional Police Department (IPD). The Department fields a 60 member patrol force for the two hospitals, and several public health clinics throughout the City and County. The Department is also the primary provider of security to City Hall, and the Emergency Communications Dispatch Center.
K-9 Unit
The Department has two canine units to perform a variety of search duties for the areas under the Sheriff's control.
Civil Unit
The Department's Civil Unit carries out judgements of the San Francisco Civil Courts. the Unit serves court orders, including restraining orders, property seizures, evictions, and civil bench warrants. The Unit assists elderly, handicapped and indigent civil evictees by coordinating services with dozens of community assistance agencies throughout San Francisco. Since the program was initiated in 1980, more than 20,000 evictees and landlords have been assisted.
Emergency Services Unit
The Department maintains a well trained Emergency Services Unit (ESU). An ESU assignment is a concurrent assignment for sworn personnel who must qualify for with physical agility and firearms tests and an oral interview process. There are currently over 100 members of the ESU. The ESU performs a wide range of functions, and is the Department's main response unit for large special events such as protests or large City sponsored events, high risk prisoner transport, large jail disturbances, or terrorist activity.
Special Response Team
The Department also has a Special Response Team (SRT), who have specialized weapons training, including forward observers (snipers). This elite group trains for significant emergencies and events occurring in areas under the Sheriff's control.
External links
★ SF Sheriff's Dept. Official web site.
★ San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association
References
1. [1]
2. [2]
3. San Francisco Sheriff's Department : Jail
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