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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Delaware. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 49 law enforcement agencies employing 2,131 sworn police officers, about 243 for each 100,000 residents.
Sussex County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census , the population was 237,378, making it the state's second most populated county only behind New Castle and ahead of Kent . [ 1 ]
The southern and western portions of present-day Sussex County were organized as portions of several adjacent Maryland counties and were not recognized as part of Delaware until the Mason-Dixon Survey was run in 1767. [9] In 1791, with the expansion of Sussex County to the south and west, the county seat was moved to Georgetown. [6]
The office of Sheriff of Sussex was established before the Norman Conquest.The Office of sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord-Lieutenant the prime office under the Crown as the Sovereign's personal representative.
Caleb Rodney Layton (September 8, 1851 – November 11, 1930) was an American physician and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party , and served two terms as U.S. Representative from Delaware.
Collins served as Sheriff of Kent County from 1764 until 1767, and was a member of the Colonial Assembly in five of the nine annual sessions during the period from the 1767/68 session through the 1775/76 session. He was a member of the Delaware Constitutional Convention of 1776 and was elected to two terms in the Legislative Council beginning ...
In Kent and Sussex Counties, the Delaware State Police serve as the primary law-enforcement agency that are not incorporated into municipalities who have their own law enforcement agency. In New Castle County, the Delaware State Police shares primary jurisdiction with the New Castle County Police .
The Sussex Correctional Institution (SCI) is located in unincorporated Sussex County, Delaware, [1] near Georgetown. Opened in 1931, SCI, a part of the Delaware Department of Correction, is one of Delaware's oldest correctional facilities. SCI houses maximum, medium, and minimum security inmates.