Plaquemines Parish La Sheriff's Office

The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office provides law enforcement services, promotes public safety and protects the rights and property of the nearly 70,000 residents in St. Bernard Parish, La. The sheriff s office has numerous substations strategically located on major thoroughfares linking St. Bernard to New Orleans. The sheriff s offices operates a neighborhood watch program, provides intensive and on-going training for every deputy. In addition, it works closely with the school board, district attorney and judges to provide an in-school and suspension-on-site program, an alternative school for at-risk students, a monthly local-access cable television crime prevention and training show that reaches nearly 17,000 homes, and oversees a state-of-the-art prison and juvenile detention facility. The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff s Office employs nearly 350 deputies and staff members.

The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office is headquartered in Covington, La. The office has several departments that include criminal patrol, central dispatch, investigations, information systems, special operations and crime laboratory. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office operates a mobile command center that is equipped with a fax machine, computer, kitchen, bathroom, cell and radio boosters, side lighting equipment and more than five radio dispatch stations. The investigations department of the office investigates property crimes, thefts, burglaries, robberies, rapes and murders. It also intervenes in cases of domestic violence and provides information and assistance to victims.

Assumption Police Jury, an elected legislative body of Assumption Parish, serves its community. Located in Napoleonville, La., the jury addresses various issues, including approvals for culvert repairs and installations, approval for catch basin, waterworks projects, updating grants, public hearings, licenses, including liquor license and other businesses. Additionally, it deals with various committees, including drainage, insurance, road and bridge, finance, federal programs, economic development and engineering. Assumption Police Jury is composed of nine elected members representing the nine wards of the parish.