I've written about this area before on this blog, here, and here. I recently pointed out the lack of enforcement to both Mark Souder and Ken Fries. I had a reader of the blog state that my beef is not with the sheriff department, I am not looking for any beef. However, the reader is dead wrong, about the Sheriff Department authority, residents who live in the city are under the jurisdiction of the Allen County Sheriff Department. Now the sheriff's department may defer to the city in their criminal operation, but that does not mean the residents of the city are not protected by Allen County Sheriffs as as well the City Police Department.
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Makes perfect sense to me....the CITY is WITHIN the COUNTY...NOT the other way around, therefore, the FWPD is (technically) under the jurisdiction of the county in which it resides.
ReplyDeleteIn Philadelphia the Sheriif's department IS under the jurisdiction of the Philly PD, simply because it's the CITY AND COUNTY of Philadelphia, and the two agencies have been this way for a long time.
The sheriff handles the courthouse, prisoner transfers, warrants served, sheriff sales of homes (of course), and truancies ALL under the auspices of the PPD.
But Philly is both a city AND a county, and we're not...we are separate.
It's not rocket science.
Just the facts!
;)
B.G.