| Agencyname: | Anoka County Sheriff's Office |
| Abbreviation: | ACSO |
| Motto: | "To protect and serve the community in a manner that preserves the public trust" |
| Formedyear: | 1857 |
| Formedmonthday: | June 30 |
| Employees: | 300+ (with volunteers) |
| Volunteers: | 300+ (with employees) |
| Country: | United States |
| Countryabbr: | USA |
| Divtype: | State |
| Divname: | Minnesota |
| Subdivtype: | County (United States) |
| Subdivname: | Anoka County, Minnesota |
| Map: | Map_of_Minnesota_highlighting_Anoka_County.svg |
| Sizearea: | 446sqmi |
| Sizepopulation: | 353,813 (2018) |
| Police: | Yes |
| Local: | Yes |
| Headquarters: | Andover, Minnesota |
| Website: | Anoka County Sheriff's Office |
The Anoka County Sheriff's Office is the sheriff's office of Anoka County, Minnesota, in the United States. The ACSO is the 4th largest county in the State of Minnesota. It currently serves at least 400,000 residents and is headquartered in Andover. The ACSO comprises 21 cities and townships and is part of the seven-county Metropolitan area. Their services include crime prevention, providing assistance to crime victims, and providing firearms permits. Brad Wise is the current Sheriff and has been the Sheriff of Anoka County since 2023. The office is organized into six individual divisions including Administration, Justice Services, Jail, Patrol, Criminal Investigations (CID), and Midwest Regional Forensic Laboratory.
This division of the ACSO watches over the day-to-day operations, it provides human resources to customers, and it also oversees the financial and fleet management for the office. The functions of Administration include The Professional Standards Unit and The Training Unit. The PSU is in charge of insuring that the employees of the ACSO comply with the professional standards.[1] The TU is responsible for establishing and scheduling training for all Sheriffs Office employees as well as sworn officers county wide. The training is performed in conjunction with the Anoka County Law Enforcement Training Center.[2] Some of the duties include background and internal affairs investigations.
This division is in charge of records, warrants, civil processing, court security, and prisoner transports.
The jail of Anoka County is located in Downtown Anoka, and is a 238 bed detention center for criminals who have become incarcerated because of a criminal offense. This jail is the primary adult booking building for all departments within the Anoka County area. Annually, the jail takes in over 10,000 people and the jail houses many individuals for the United States Marshal Service. More responsibilities of the jail include being in charge of the electronic posting of all issued warrants, providing the status of warrants to the law enforcement agencies, and clearing out warrants that are over and have already been served. Every year, the jail goes through over 6,000 warrants.
This division of the ACSO provides services to one township and seven cities in the Northern part of Anoka County. The Patrol division maintains contact services with the cities of Andover, Bethel, Columbus, East Bethel, Ham Lake, Linwood Township, Nowthen, and Oak Grove. They respond to over 35,000 calls per year and they are responsible for 244 square miles of service converge. Additional services that the Patrol division take care of are:
Criminal Investigations[5] handle things like sexual assault, homicide, and other suspicious death cases that occur in the Anoka County area. Some other areas of investigation include child maltreatment, welfare, fraud, computer forensics, and polygraph services. The division operates the Anoka-Hennepin Narcotics and Violent Crimes Task Force.[6] Annually the division handles over 1,600 felony cases, including over 500 sexual assaults. The Criminal Investigations department has a Crime Lab. This lab provides services to all agencies in Anoka County by processing crime scenes for evidence. The crime scene unit processes over 500 crimes annually.
This laboratory offers services to local law enforcement agencies within the counties of Anoka, Sherburne, and Wright in the forensic disciplines[7] of latent prints, drug chemistry, blood/urine alcohol testing and DNA analysis.[8]
In late May 2020, the Anoka County Sheriff's Department was involved in policing the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. The department slashed tyres of unoccupied vehicles parked near protests, admitting their involvement around a week later.[9] [10]
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