The Ada County Sheriff’s Office is the largest local law enforcement agency in Idaho, with over 740 employees. That includes over 325 commissioned deputies and over 400 professional staffers.
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office is committed to giving every citizen the best possible service. Our main goal is to ensure Ada County is a safe place to live, work, and play.
The Ada County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge for their support in our combined effort to reduce our jail population. We are headed into the final phase of the MacArthur Foundation’s $1 million grant Ada County received in October 2017. Our shared goal with the foundation is
It is not uncommon for Ada County’s 911 Emergency dispatchers to get calls from recreationists or hunters who get turned around in the Foothills and need help getting out. Our deputies know the area well and can usually figure out where people are, but then they have to determine how to safely travel through the
It seems like there is no shortage of scams going around. The most ubiquitous racket for the last several years has been the “jury duty,” “IRS,” or “arrest” scam, where someone pretending to be a law enforcement officer calls your cell phone and says if you don’t pay a fee immediately, you will be arrested.
