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The Sheriff of Clark County, officially The Sheriff of the County of Clark, is the chief law enforcement officer of Clark County, Nevada.The Sheriff heads the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, is elected by the citizens of Clark County, and is an independent agency with joint policing of the City of Las Vegas and of unincorporated Clark County.
Legislation to merge the Las Vegas Police Department with the Clark County Sheriff's Department was passed by the Nevada State Legislature, and the merger became effective in 1973. [ 4 ] In 1999, an outside audit conducted by DMG-Maximus, commended the department for having fewer managers and supervisors than are typically found in large police ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Nevada.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 76 law enforcement agencies employing 6,643 sworn police officers, about 254 for each 100,000 residents.
LAS VEGAS — Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill noted a number of similarities between Matthew Livelsberger, the Army special forces officer believed to have blown up a Cybertruck in front of ...
Republican Joe Lombardo, a career police officer and sheriff in Las Vegas who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been elected governor in Nevada. Lombardo defeated Steve Sisolak ...
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (B.S. and M.S.) William David Young (born 1956) is an American retired law enforcement officer and the 15th Sheriff of Clark County from January 6, 2003, to January 2, 2007. [ 1 ]
A Nevada sheriff took a local library’s message of support for the Black Lives Matter movement as a personal “attack” on him and his officers. After a Douglas County library drafted a ...
Born in Japan, Lombardo moved to Las Vegas in 1976 and was educated at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [5] He served in the United States Army before becoming an officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in 1988. [6] He was elected sheriff in 2014 and reelected in 2018. [7]