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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Mississippi.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 342 law enforcement agencies employing 7,707 sworn police officers, about 262 for each 100,000 residents. [1]
Apr. 6—Longtime Pontotoc County Sheriff John Christian announced Friday that he will not seek reelection. Although Christian had been with the office previously, he was elected as sheriff in ...
Pontotoc County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,184. [1] Its county seat is Pontotoc. [2] It was created on February 9, 1836, from lands ceded to the United States under the Chickasaw Cession.
James Lamar Roberts Jr. (born June 8, 1945) [1] is an American retired jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1992 to 1999. [2]Born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Roberts received a J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1971, [3] and served as the prosecuting attorney for Pontotoc County, Mississippi from 1972 to 1983.
William L. Sharkey (1798–1873), 25th Governor of Mississippi and Mississippi Supreme Court justice 3,336: 435.3 sq mi (1,127 km 2) Simpson County: 127: Mendenhall: SI: 1824: Formed from Copiah County: Josiah Simpson, Mississippi Territory judge and delegate to the 1817 Mississippi Constitutional Convention [26] 25,715: 590.5 sq mi (1,529 km 2 ...
DeSoto County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Justin Smith said Tuesday night that multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Marshals Service, have been searching for Smith since he fled.
Pontotoc is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, located to the west of the larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,640 at the 2020 census. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word that means, “Land of the Hanging Grapes.”
A Mississippi sheriff's department says it has set new security procedures since an inmate escaped and fled to Chicago, where he was arrested last week after a 15-hour standoff with police at a ...