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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department has been
providing contract law enforcement services to the City of San Marcos since it
incorporated in 1963. In the role of the city's "Police Department," deputies
of the San Marcos Station provide all aspects of law enforcement services
including patrol, traffic, COPPS, crime prevention, communications, criminal
investigations, and various management and clerical support services.
Additionally, the San Marcos Sheriff's Station provides law enforcement
services, excluding traffic enforcement, to the over 35,000 residents who
reside in the surrounding unincorporated community. The California Highway
Patrol provides traffic control and enforcement in these unincorporated areas.
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consists of 94 sworn and 9 professional staff, 11 reserves and 2 chaplains
under the command of a Sheriff's Captain, assisted by an Administrative
Lieutenant and a Field Lieutenant.
Special community services include juvenile diversion
detectives, street gang and narcotics team, school resource officers (one at
each of the high schools), crime prevention, and a senior volunteer patrol.
The San Marcos station also has
a K-9 unit working in patrol and the only A.
S. T. R. E. A. landing pad at a patrol station, allowing north county deputies
to have extended helicopter coverage for law enforcement operations.
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In keeping with the Department's
Mission Statement of working in partnership with the
community, Child Protective Services, Adult Protective
Services, and Juvenile Probation are all housed at
the station.
The Sheriff's Department also provides citizens of
San Marcos with a wide variety of other regional services
that include search and rescue reserves, specialized
investigations (homicide, bomb/arson, narcotics, child/elder
abuse, financial crimes, domestic violence), a tactical
response team (SWAT), modern crime lab facilities
and one of the nation's most modern law enforcement
radio communications networks.
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SAN MARCOS STATION PRESENTS THE
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2007
The citizens of San Marcos are both our customers and
our partners in our common goal of making our city a safe place to live, work,
and raise our families. Statistics can be a useful tool to reveal
developing trends and help determine goals and objectives. This report is
one method of showing how the
Sheriff's Department is utilizing its resources
to improve the quality of life for the community we serve. Of course, our
most useful tool is your perception of our job performance.
Click
here to see the San Marcos Station's Annual Report
for 2007. This document is filled with data,
charts, and tables. It is presented in .pdf
format. You can read this report by utilizing
Adobe Acrobat Reader, an application that can be downloaded
free of charge from Adobe via the Internet.
Any page, or the entire document, can be printed from
your computer.
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