Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department facts

• The Department’s three main responsibilities entail providing patrol services for 153 unincorporated communities of Los Angeles County, California and 42 of 88 cities
• , providing courthouse security for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and the housing and transportation of inmates within the county jail system
• In addition, the Department contracts with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metro link, provides law enforcement services to ten community colleges, patrols over 177 county parks, golf courses, special event venues, two major lakes, 16 hospitals, and over 300 county facilities; and provides services, such as crime laboratories, homicide investigations, and academy training, to smaller law enforcement agencies within the county
• The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is also the second largest transit police force in the nation, aside from the NYPD, through policing contracts of the Metro trains and buses of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metrolink
• Furthermore, with policing contracts with nine campuses of the Los Angeles Community College and Lancaster Community College District, the LASD is the largest community policing agency in the United States
• The Department's headquarters are located in downtown Los Angeles at the Los Angeles County Hall of Justice