Sacramento County (CA) Law Enforcement

Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office

SSO/SSD is comprised by over 1500 Sworn employees, which includes Field Services, Correctional Services, and various Contract/Regional Services.

Sheriff’s Patrol units

SSO’s patrol units are divided into North, East and Central(South) Divisions. North Division is comprised of 4 districts, north of the Sacramento River. East Division comprises two patrol districts, one being the Rancho Cordova Police Department, where SSO deputies patrol the confines of Rancho Cordova, in RCPD marked cars and uniforms, but are still deputy sheriffs and wear a deputy sheriff badge. The “Chief of Police” for RCPD is an SSO Captain. Central Division is comprised of two patrol districts, Central and South. Various Speciality and support sections/units are included in these patrol units.

Sheriff patrol callsigns are comprised of a number-number-letter-number combination. The first number denotes the district(1-6), the 2nd number denotes the best within the district, the letter denotes the shift(discussed below), and the final number(1-2) identifies the number of officers in the car. I believe if there is a field training trainee in the car, the number may still be 1. Often the final number is not voiced on the radio.

District 1(Northeast)-Areas near Sac. International Airport, McClellan, North Highlands, Antelope, Rio Linda

Examples: 11A1 District 1 Beat 1 morning/Day shift 1 man unit 16F2 Beat 6 graveyard shift 2 man car

District 2(North)- Old Foothill Farms, Carmichael 22C1 District 2 beat 2 Swing shift 1 man car 24D2- District 2 Beat 4 Swing Shift 2 man unit

District 3(Northeast)-Carmichael, Orangevale

District 4(North Central)- Arden Arcade

East Division(RCPD/SSO East Area patrol)

District 5(RCPD)- City Limits of Rancho Cordova)

District 7(East)- North part of Vineyard, Mather, Rosemont Gold River, unincorporated north eastern part of South Sacramento County.

Central Divison(Central/South bureau)

District 6(Central)- Florin, Vineyard

District 8(South) Most of South Sacramento County, Herald, Wilton, River Delta, Rancho Murrieta

SSO Shifts

Patrol Shifts are divided into 3 watches, Day, Swing, and Graveyard, 10 hours in length. Each watch is further divided to make 6 patrol teams to allow for days off. Watches are overlapped by about 2 hours to allow for efficient/safe shift changeovers

Adam/Boy- Day shift units (0600-1600) Charles/David- Swing Shift(1400-0000) Frank/Ed- Graveyard shift (2200-0800)

Specialty units: Most speciality units, such as Gangs, POP, etc, are named somewhat plainly over radio, such as GANGXX, POPXX, with the numbers matching the patrol district they are matching, with a somewhat random 2nd number. For example, a Gang Unit working in district 6 might be called as GANG62.

Gang-Obvious POP- Problem Oriented Policing/Homeless Outreach Units

River-Marine enforcement units Silver- Universal CA callsign for parole agents

SACCAT/ACE- Sacramento County Auto Theft Task Force/Auto Crimes Enforcement- Auto theft units, usually with single number, such as SACCAT9 or ACE2.

Youth- SSO Youth Services Unit

SSO has a standing contract with the Elk Grove Unified School District to provide SROs for their schools. Unknown Callsign.

SSO will occasionally provide part time SROs for other districts, such as San Juan Unified

SJ41 San Juan 41. San Juan “Safe Schools” part time assignment in District 4.

RCPD has a Crime Suppresion Unit, which I have seen called as 5 X-ray (number)