Archived Sheriff's Office

The Archived Sheriff's Office (ASO) is a county-wide law enforcement department in Archived.

The Sheriff’s Office is primarily responsible for providing bailiff duties for the local courts and to administer and guard the Archived Jail. They are also responsible for patrolling the outer county areas of Archived and to patrol Westpoint, which has no independent law enforcement agency. Their jurisdiction is throughout the entire county of Archived. The Sheriff's Office also consists of the Warrant Enforcement Bureau (WEB).

ASO also has Correctional Officers, who are non-departamental officers who are tasked with maintaining correctional facilities. Sometimes, they are seen in Ride Alongs with deputies

They have 23 sheriff deputies and 0 correctional officers as of July 2020.

Stations
The Archived Sheriff's Office operations and "owns" two buildings in Archived. The main building is the Archived Sheriff's Office Headquarters (ASO HQ). The HQ is the main spawn location for all Deputies and also functions as the County's Correctional Facility. The main floor houses the County Jail, warrant garage, IA + CID offices, interrogation room and booking room. There is also a large parking area in the middle of the HQ, where access to the locker room and warrant garage is located. The second floor is the home of the Goodison Court and the offices of the Sheriff and Undersheriff.

The other stations are the Westpoint Court House/Sheriff's Office Sub-station located in Westpoint.

The Archived Sheriff's Office has also owned previous headquarters in prior updates. This station was the Plymouth Sheriff's Office Station (This station model was used prior to today's station, even after moving the location)

Divisions
The ASO focuses primarily on non-traffic related crimes. They consist of four divisions, each with their specific role.

Patrol Division
The Patrol Division of the Sheriff's Office is tasked with regular duties, such as ensuring the safety is high of all drivers on the roads. The patrol division may respond to emergency backup calls. The patrol division also conducts normal patrol duties in Plymouth and Lander.

Custodial Services
The Sheriff's Office is responsible for staffing the headquarters jail and courts. The Custodial Services is in charge of certifying deputies in their abilities as bailiffs and correctional officers. The division also manages correctional officers employed by the ASO.

The Custodial Services originally was split between two Sergeants, the Chief Bailiff and Chief Warden. Each was responsible for the certification and managing of their own respective services. The two were combined into Custodial Services in February of 2019.

Training Bureau
The Training Bureau is responsible for the training of all new Cadets joining the department. They are also in charge of certifying all Deputies in Custodial and Protections.

Warrant Enforcement Bureau (WEB)
The Sheriff's Office is responsible for enforcing search warrants imposed on players. The WEB will force a player to spawn their vehicles, under the threat of moderation action, and will cease contraband, such as illegal firearms, etc. Search warrants and arrest warrants are issued by Judges of the District Court. However, an arrest warrant is automatically issued when a suspect didn't pay their citations in 30 minutes.

Criminal Investigations Division (CID)
The Sheriff's Office is also responsible for the investigation and apprehension of persons involved in gang-related activity. CID is also responsible for running background checks on new probationary deputies.

Internal Affairs Bureau (IA)

The Internal Affairs Bureau is responsible for the enforcement of ASO department policies as well as handing out disciplinary action against Deputies that do not meet expectations. It contains the most notorious Internal Affairs investigator in the State of Archived, AdamDosen.

Public Relations Office (PRO)

The Public Relations Office is tasked with maintaining the Sheriff's Office's public image and relationship with the public. They are responsible for all public events related to the department, with one of their most popular being the Behind Bars event

Miscellaneous
Protections

Protections are tasked with protecting Judges of the District Court and members of the County Board, including the County Executive.

Uniform
Archived Sheriff's Office uniforms remained the same for a long time, since the founding days of Archived. However, there were a few changes.

First, the uniform cover (hat) used to be campaign hat, similar to MSP trooper's cover, instead of cowboy style hat they have today

Next, SO had uniform changes. They keep using the Tan uniform they have today. However, they changed to brown uniform briefly. But it was converted back to tan uniform after deputies refused to wear it.

Vehicles
Archived Sheriff's office had one big change to their vehicle livery.

Before, they had all brown car with the American flag on the back, with SHERIFF written on the door.

Now it has changed into a brown on the trunk and hood of the car with the middle part being white. However, Sheriff conveyer still has the old fashion livery

Ranks
ASO follows the paramilitary rank structure. All the insignia are brown with yellow trimming. The insignias are displayed on the deputy's sleeves. Above LT has shoulder insignia