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The Administrative Office provides general administrative support to the Sheriff’s Office including recruiting and hiring, background investigations, payroll, purchasing, internal investigations, automation, and budget related functions.

It also provides technical support for Sheriff’s summons, domestic violence, and warrant components and various day-to-day administrative operations.

Operations
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The Operations Division serves the citizens of Wyandotte County by providing law enforcement, civil process, and inmate transport services.
 
The division is composed of the following:

• Civil Process: This unit is assigned four deputies and enforces orders issued by the various courts by serving process, executing judgments, and making returns on the orders.
• Court Transport: This unit t is assigned seven deputies and transports inmates to and from court hearings, maintains courtroom security and accepts custody of individuals on order of the court.
• Facility Transport-Adult: This unit is assigned two deputies and transports inmates from local and state facilities to Wyandotte County, and transports sentenced inmates from Wyandotte County to state correctional facilities.
• Criminal Warrants: This unit is assigned three deputies and locates and arrests individuals on criminal and civil warrants and transports them to the detention facility for processing.
• Delinquent Taxes: This is assigned one deputy and unit collects taxes due by contacting the defendants, serving orders of the court and collecting the monies owed and delivering it to the county treasurer.
• Evictions: This unit restores real property to the possession of the owner by service of, and enforcement of orders issued by the courts.
• Probate Services: This unit is assigned one deputy that serves the Probate Court by transporting individuals whom the court has reason to believe are at risk to themselves and/or others.  The patients are located and transported to medical facilities throughout the state and brought to the court on order of the court.
• Tag Enforcement: This unit is assigned two deputies and enforces the regulations governing vehicle registration by answering citizen complaints, making random road checks, and scheduled tag enforcement checkpoints for proper licensing, registration, and financial security requirements.  The enforcement of these laws helps to ensure payment of personal property tax.
• Park Law Enforcement: This unit is assigned seven deputies and is responsible for enforcing state laws and local ordinances within the Wyandotte County park system.
• Investigations: This unit provides the Sheriff’s Office with thorough, consistent and fair investigations on internal and external matters originating in the Adult and Juvenile Detention Centers, as well as those investigations originating from the Field Services Division.

Major Daniel Soptic

Undersheriff Larry Roland   |   Email

The Sheriff’s Office manages the incarceration of adult and juvenile offenders in the local county detention centers and provide for their safety therein.  Therefore, in the event of offender unrest/criminal activity occurring within the detention facilities, the Sheriff’s Office has historically maintained a specialized unit of officers trained to provide strategic intervention.  This specialized unit of officers is in the process of evolving into the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team.

Specifically, the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team (S.E.R.T.) is designed to provide specialized public safety services to local courts, corrections and law enforcement agencies, as well as to the community at large.

The S.E.R.T. has five primary objectives: 

• Provide specialized law enforcement intervention specific to the pursuit and capture of those criminals involved in drug and/or terrorist activities.
• Provide tactical support to local law enforcement agencies.
• Pursue and apprehend high risk/violent offenders on warrant status.
• Respond to citizens concerns regarding suspected criminal activity in a pro-active and time sensitive manner.
• Provide tactical intervention to quell unrest/criminal activity within the local detention centers.

The most recently recognized and greatest threat to our citizens comes from organized terrorist activities. This most recent threat, along with the criminal activities that continue to be associated with the drug trade, require us to be vigilant in our pursuit of those who would do our citizens most harm and maintain a level of preparedness adequate to intervene as required. The S.E.R.T. team will provide the kind of highly trained, specialized law enforcement response necessary to for us to best serve our community.

In addition, as we have historically maintained a tactical team in a state of preparedness to primarily manage unrest within the detention centers, the development of the S.E.R.T. will allow this specialized training to be utilized not only within the confines of the detention centers, but will allow for expansion of services to the citizens of the county and the law enforcement community.  The investment into the ongoing specialized training, equipment needs, personnel, etc. of the S.E.R.T. will now reap a much larger return as our mission and objectives have expanded in response to the needs of the community.

Wyandotte County currently has over 870 outstanding criminal felony warrants.  The S.E.R.T. team will have the training and resources necessary to pursue and apprehend those felons deemed to be “high risk” offenders, reducing public safety risk to the community.  In addition, community members may report suspected criminal activity to the Office of the Sheriff.  The S.E.R.T. may be utilized to investigate if, in fact, the alleged crimes are being committed and develop a tactical plan to intervene upon those activities in a proactive and time sensitive manner.

Currently, two of the three cities located with the boundaries of the county, Bonner Springs and Edwardsville, do not have specialized tactical units available via their respective local police departments.  The S.E.R.T. may be utilized by those cities to “fill in the gap” of resources available to those local police departments in the event they have need of a tactical unit.