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Sheriffs' Departments 1997

Statistics grouped under the categories of personnel, expenditures and pay, operations, community policing, equipment, and computers and information systems were derived from the 1997 LEMAS survey. Highlights include: 263,427 employees worked full-time in sheriffs' departments as of June 1997, with 175,000 individuals being sworn personnel; FY97 saw total operating expenses of $13.1 billion, an increase from 1993 of 10%; 9% of departments provided routine patrol services, 95% responded to citizen calls for service; about 3 in 4 sheriffs' officers worked for a department with some type of community plan; 95% of sheriffs' departments, employing 98% of all sheriffs' officers, authorized the use of semiautomatic sidearms; and 93% of departments used computers. Accession Number: 015802

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