Divisions
The BCSO is divided into the following divisions:
- Civil Division: responsible for handing and delivering civil processes such as judgements, evictions and auctions.
- Corrections Division: responsible for maintaining custody of prisoners remanded by courts. The Corrections Division is currently operating a 536 bed direct supervision correctional facility in the Town of Dickinson.
- Detective Division: responsible for major crimes and juvenile violators, special investigations and major crime tracking.
- Highway Patrol Division: responsible for law enforcement, arrest of lawbreakers, criminal investigations, auto accident investigations, and public safety.
- Identification Division: responsible for pistol permits, sheriff id cards, fingerprinting, and criminal records.
- Training Division: responsible for mandated police and correctional training. Also provides all inservice training for Sheriff's Office employees. The Broome County Law Enforcement Academy also provides state mandated training for 40 law enforcement agencies in a 7 county area.
- Business Office: responsible for cash receipts, cash disbursements, payroll reports and accounts payable.
- Records Division: responsible for the recording and maintaining of all official records and documents relative to the police operations of the Broome County Sheriff's Office.
- DARE: responsible for community policing and teaching DARE in Broome County.
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