The Top 5 largest California Sheriff Departments

[2wayfreq]

Just Curious, I was looking for a listing of SO departments in order of size in California, but I cant find anything. I think its:

1 Los Angeles Sheriff
2. Riverside County Sheriff (They claim Second Largest on their Site under "History")
3. San Bernardino County Sheriff
4. San Diego County Sheriff
5 Orange County Sheriff

Please feel free to correct if I'm way off, and/or maybe go for top ten.

 

[RolnCode3]

As you'll notice below, the formatting didn't work out very well. The short version of the answer to your question, based upon 2008 data, in descending order:

Los Angeles
San Diego
Riverside
Orange
San Bernardino
Sacramento
Alameda
Kern
Fresno
San Francisco

Should you be interested in other similar law enforcement personnel questions, the best source for data of that type is the FBI's UCR.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2008/police/index.html

If you go here: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Click on a different year under "Crime in the United States"
Then look for the Police Employee Data area, you can find similar info for other years.

County	 Total law enforcement employees	 Total officers	 Total civilians
Alameda	1,682	1,037	645
Butte	281	113	168
Contra Costa	1,004	681	323
El Dorado	406	206	200
Fresno	1,091	899	192
Imperial	270	180	90
Kern	1,209	908	301
Kings	228	83	145
Los Angeles	16,393	9,513	6,880
Madera	114	79	35
Marin	321	210	111
Merced	257	201	56
Monterey	430	314	116
Napa	129	98	31
Orange	3,645	1,854	1,791
Placer	434	231	203
Riverside	4,109	2,166	1,943
Sacramento	2,402	1,510	892
San Benito	69	59	10
San Bernardino	3,399	1,764	1,635
San Diego	3,953	2,328	1,625
San Francisco	1,066	883	183
San Joaquin	869	354	515
San Luis Obispo	382	157	225
San Mateo	601	435	166
Santa Barbara	654	479	175
Santa Clara	683	522	161
Santa Cruz	341	138	203
Shasta	240	163	77
Solano	477	115	362
Sonoma	706	507	199
Stanislaus	661	470	191
Sutter	134	102	32
Tulare	686	499	187
Ventura	1,223	723	500
Yolo	256	84	172
Yuba	177	136	41
Nonmetropolitan Counties	Alpine	18	15	3
Amador	90	48	42
Calaveras	110	60	50
Colusa	64	31	33
Del Norte	65	33	32
Glenn	68	28	40
Humboldt	238	184	54
Inyo	57	38	19
Lake	156	58	98
Lassen	94	72	22
Mariposa	69	55	14
Mendocino	172	130	42
Modoc	29	23	6
Mono	44	27	17
Nevada	185	69	116
Plumas	68	34	34
Sierra	15	11	4
Siskiyou	121	91	30
Tehama	117	85	32
Trinity	36	17	19
Tuolumne	131	65	66

 

[2wayfreq]

Very interesting, Thank you.