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King County Sheriff's Office. The King County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) is a local law enforcement agency in King County, Washington, United States. It is the primary law enforcement agency for all unincorporated areas of King County, as well as 12 cities and two transit agencies which contract their police services to the KCSO.
King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population was 2,269,675 in the 2020 census, [1] making it the most populous county in Washington, and the 12th-most populous in the United States. The county seat is Seattle, [2] also the state's most populous city. Originally named after US representative, senator, and then vice president-elect William R. King in 1852, the ...
Mitzi G. Johanknecht (born 1959) [1] is an American police officer who served as the sheriff of King County, Washington from 2018 to 2022. Prior to her election in 2017, she served for 32 years at the King County Sheriff's Office, holding the rank of major.
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is responsible for the whole city except for the campus of the University of Washington (which is under the university's police department). Law enforcement in Seattle began with the election of John T. Jordan as town marshal in 1869. [3] The SPD was officially ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the US state of Washington. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 260 law enforcement agencies employing 11,411 sworn police officers, about 174 for each 100,000 residents. The state has the lowest ratio of police officers to residents of any state, compared to a ...
In late 2023 and early 2024, the King County Sheriff's Office announced that two sets of unidentified bones were linked to two of Ridgway's victims through DNA technology.
John W. Urquhart (born November 10, 1947) was the 33rd sheriff of King County, Washington and a Democrat. [1] He served as the county's chief law enforcement official and oversaw the more than 1000 employees of the King County Sheriff's Office. [2]
Kenmore contracts with the King County Sheriff's Office for police services. Deputies assigned to Kenmore wear city uniforms and drive patrol cars marked with the city logo. There are currently 9 patrol officers, one traffic officer, one storefront officer, and one chief assigned full-time to the city.