Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

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Yavapai County Sheriff's Office
Abbreviation	YCSO
Agency overview
Formed	1864
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
Map of Yavapai County Sheriff's Office's jurisdiction
Size	8,128 square miles (21,050 km2)
Population	212,635 (2007)
General nature	Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Prescott, Arizona
Agency executive	David Rhodes, Sheriff
Website
http://www.ycsoaz.gov

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office (YCSO) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Yavapai County, Arizona. It provides general-service law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Yavapai County, serving as the equivalent of the police for unincorporated areas of the county. It also operates the county jail system. The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office (YCSO) is headquartered in Prescott, Arizona.^[1]

Organization

The current Sheriff is David Rhodes. The YCSO has three divisions:^[2]

• Law Enforcement Services Division
  • Northern Area Command
  • Eastern Area Command
  • Southeast Area Command
  • Southwest Area Command
  • Criminal Investigations Bureau
  • Support Services Bureau
• Detention Services Division
  • Administrative Services
  • Central ID Services
  • Housing Services
  • Inmate Services
  • Transportation Services
  • Medical Services
• Administrative Services Division
  • Records
  • Communications / Dispatch
  • Information Technology

Sheriffs

#[3]	Portrait	Name	Term in office	Length of Service	Party affiliation		Previous office
1	No image available	Van Ness Cummings Smith (1837–1914; aged 77)	May 26, 1864 – February 18, 1865	268 days		Democratic
2	No image available	Jerome Calkins (1830–?)	February 18, 1865 – January 24, 1866	340 days		Republican
3	No image available	John T. Bourke 1 (1827–1868; aged 41)	January 24, 1866 – June 30, 1867	1 year, 157 days
4	No image available	Andrew J. Moore[4] 2 (d. 1885)	July 1, 1867 – January 21, 1868	204 days
5	No image available	John L. Taylor 1	January 21, 1868 – December 31, 1870	2 years, 344 days
6		John H. Behan 1 (1844–1912; aged 67)	January 1, 1871 – December 31, 1872	2 years
7	No image available	James S. Thomas 3	January 1, 1873 – January 5, 1874	1 year
8	No image available	Henry M. Herbert 1 (d. 1895)	January 17, 1874 – December 31, 1874	1 year
9	No image available	Edward F. Bowers[4] (1838–1879; aged 40)	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1878	4 years
10		John R. Walker (1832–1897; aged 64)	January 1, 1879 – December 31, 1882	4 years
11	No image available	Jacob Henkle	January 1, 1883 – December 31, 1884	2 years
12		William J. Mulvenon (1853–1915; aged 61)	January 1, 1885 – December 31, 1888	4 years
13		William "Bucky" O'Neill[4] (1860–1898; aged 38)	January 1, 1889 – December 31, 1890	2 years
14	No image available	James R. Lowry[4] (1850–1918; aged 67–68)	January 1, 1891 – December 31, 1894	4 years
15	No image available	George C. Ruffner[4] (1862–1933; aged 70)	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1898	4 years		Democrat
16	No image available	John L. Munds[4] (1868–1953; aged 84)	January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1902	4 years		Democrat
17	No image available	Joseph I. Roberts (1865–1925; aged 60)	January 1, 1903 – December 31, 1904	2 years		Republican
18	No image available	James R. Lowry (2nd term)	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1908	4 years
19	No image available	James W. Smith	January 1, 1909 – December 31, 1911	3 years
20	No image available	Charles C. Keeler (1859–?)	January 1, 1912 – December 31, 1914	3 years		Republican
21	No image available	Joseph F. Young (1871–1941; aged 70)	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	4 years		Democrat
22	No image available	Warren G. Davis † (1875–1922; aged 46)	January 1, 1919 – September 5, 1922	3 years, 247 days		Republican
23	No image available	Joseph P. Dillon 1 (1864–1933; aged 69)	September 6, 1922 – December 31, 1922	116 days
24	No image available	George C. Ruffner (2nd Term)	January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1924	2 years		Democrat
25	No image available	Edwin G. Weil (1870–1935; aged 64)	January 1, 1925 – December 31, 1926	2 years		Republican
26.	No image available	George C. Ruffner (3rd Term) †	January 1, 1927 – July 23, 1933	6 years, 203 days		Democrat
27	No image available	Robert M. Robbins 1 (1882–1957; aged 74)	July 29, 1933 – December 31, 1940	7 years, 155 days		Republican
28.	No image available	Willis Butler (1910–1948; aged 38)	January 1, 1941 – December 31, 1946	6 years		Democrat
29	No image available	Orville D. Bozarth (1886–1976; aged 89)	January 1, 1947 – December 31, 1954	8 years		Democrat
30.	No image available	James G. Cramer (1914–1992; aged 78)	January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1962	8 years		Democrat
31	No image available	G.A. "Al" Ayars 2 (1921–2007; aged 86)	January 1, 1963 – August 31, 1974	11 years, 242 days		Republican
32	No image available	Robert H. Scott 1 (1931–2015; aged 84)	September 1, 1974 – December 31, 1976	2 years, 121 days		Republican
33	No image available	Harold "Curly" Moore (1928–2015; aged 86)	January 1, 1977 – December 31, 1988	12 years		Republican
34	No image available	G.C. "Buck" Buchanan[5] (1942–2019; aged 77)	January 1, 1989 – December 31, 2004	16 years		Republican
35	No image available	Roy "Steve" Waugh 2 (born in 1945; aged 75)	January 1, 2005 – June 2, 2011	6 years, 152 days		Republican
36	No image available	Scott Mascher (born in 1961; aged 59)	June 3, 2011 – December 31, 2020	9 years, 209 days		Republican
37	No image available	David Rhodes[6]	January 1, 2021 – Incumbent			Republican

Notes

1. Appointed
2. Resigned
3. Abandoned

† died in office

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, eight officers have died in the line of duty.^[7][8]

See also

• List of law enforcement agencies in Arizona
• Little Miss Nobody case

References

External links

• Yavapai County government official website
• Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office at the Sharlot Hall Museum