Cook County Sheriff's Office

The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the law enforcement agency that serves Cook County, Illinois. It is the second largest Sheriff's department in the United States, with over 6,900 members when at full operational strength. It is headed by the Sheriff of Cook County, currently Thomas Dart. Due to its size the Cook County Sheriff's Office divides its operations by task into several departments, the most recognizable of which are the Court Services Division, Sheriff's Police Patrol Division, and the Department of Corrections.

All Cook County Sheriff's Deputies have police powers regardless of their particular job function or title. Like other Sheriffs' departments in Illinois, the Sheriff can provide all traditional law-enforcement functions, including county-wide patrol and investigations irrespective of municipal boundaries, even in the city of Chicago, but has traditionally limited its police patrol functions to unincorporated areas of the county which are the primary jurisdiction of a Sheriff's Department in Illinois.

Sheriff's Deputies outside of the Patrol and Investigations divisions provide the other services of the Sheriff, such as service of process, fugitive apprehension, enforcing evictions and levies, securing courthouses, securing and operating the 9,000 plus detainee population of the Cook County Jail, transporting prisoners and overseeing offender rehabilitation programs.

Cook County has additional police departments that are not the responsibility of the Sheriff. These include the Cook County Forest Preserve District Police and Cook County Hospital Police.

Read more about Cook County Sheriff's Office:  Sheriff's Office Divisions, Rank Structure and Insignia, Fallen Officers

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