page_title: Fairfax County Sheriff's Office
section_title: Divisions
hierarchical_section_title: Fairfax County Sheriff's Office / Divisions
caption_attribution_description: Sheriff Stacey A. Kincaid
context_page_description: The Fairfax County Sheriff's Office, officially the Fairfax County Office of the Sheriff, serves a population of 1,116,897 residents in Fairfax County, Virginia, a Northern Virginian suburb of Washington, D.C. It is the largest Sheriff's Office in Virginia with nearly 600 sworn deputies. The Sheriff and her deputies are fully sworn law enforcement officers with full arrest powers within Fairfax County, City of Fairfax and the Towns of Herndon and Vienna. The Sheriff's Office assists the Fairfax County Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to maintain peace and order in Fairfax County.
context_section_description: Adult Detention Facility
  The Adult Detention Center serves as the County jail in Fairfax. It is unique in the nation because it provides all three forms of jail housing—linear, podular remote, and direct supervision. The average daily population is about 1200 inmates.
  Inmates await trial and sentencing, or release after completing their sentence. The jail holds criminals with all types of offenses from, murder to drunk in public.
  Civil Enforcement
  The Sheriff's Office provides the service of civil documents including court capias and court orders of the Virginia Court System. The Sheriff's Office also is responsible for executing eviction orders and levies.
  Court Security
  The Sheriff's Office provides security for the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court and the Fairfax County Judicial Center (Jennings Building), both located in Fairfax County's Public Safety Complex. The Judicial Center is one of the busiest courthouses in Virginia with an average of 3,500 persons entering the center daily.
  Additionally the Sheriff's Office provides security for the courts in the towns of Vienna and Herndon and the City of Fairfax. Security is provided for the judges, staff and visitors.
  The Sheriff's Office also is responsible for escorting in excess of 17,000 prisoners to and from these courts each year.
  Community Relations
  Honor Guard
  The Honor Guard represents the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office at numerous events both locally and nationally.
  Project Lifesaver
  The Sheriff's office assists families and caregivers of individuals with Autism, Down syndrome, Alzheimer's and related diseases and disabilities.  Clients wear a wristband that emits a silent tracking signal.  Deputies that respond to a family member that is lost can locate these individuals.
  Community Labor Force
  This section provides a substantial savings to the tax payers of Fairfax County by maintaining the grounds at numerous County facilities.  The labor force removes graffiti and cleans county right of ways of trash.  Labor crews consist of well screened non-violent offenders.
  Sheriff's Emergency Response Team
  This tactical arm of the Sheriff's Office is trained to handle high risk cell extractions in the Adult Detention Center, hostage, riot and barricade situations in facilities maintained by the Sheriff's Office.  High risk transports, judiciary and executive protection, and high risk court trials.  This unit is also trained in civil disturbance management and provides mutual aid to the Fairfax County Police Department.
  Crisis Negotiation Team
  The Sheriff's Office Crisis Negotiation Team responds to the scene of all hostage or barricade situations in facilities maintained by the Sheriff's Office. Through verbal communications, its members protect the lives of all hostages, bystanders, deputy sheriffs, and suspects. Their primary objective is to secure the release of all hostages and facilitate the apprehension of all suspects.
caption: Sheriff Stacey Kincaid appearing in a parade in July 2016
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