page_title: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office (Maryland)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office (Maryland) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A Montgomery County Sheriff's Office vehicle blocks off a street where a car fire had occurred in Silver Spring, Maryland.
context_page_description: The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office is a nationally accredited U.S. law enforcement agency and acts as the enforcement arm of the courts in Montgomery County, Maryland. All of its deputy sheriffs are fully certified law enforcement officials with full authority of arrest.
  The office was created in July 1777 and is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. It was nationally accredited in 1995, the first county sheriff's office in Maryland to be so. The office is headed by a sheriff; the current sheriff is Darren M. Popkin.
caption: A Montgomery County Sheriff's Office cruiser blocks off a street in Silver Spring, Maryland in October 2008, at the scene of a car fire.
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