Roles & Available Services
- Support Staff for the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office
- Civil Process Service
- Liaison for the Pitkin County Emergency Management Coordinator
- Pitkin County Animal Safety
- Vacation Home Check
Detention
- Maintains the Pitkin County Jail
- Work Release Program
- Inmate housing, services, and transport
Investigations
Investigates criminal activities:
- Burglary
- Theft
- Check fraud
- Miscellaneous crimes
- Domestic violence
- Other Crimes Against Persons
Patrol
Performs traffic patrol and accident investigation:
- DUI patrol/arrest
- Non-injury accident investigation
- CSP assist in major accident investigations
- Routine traffic monitoring and patrol
- Vehicles abandoned on public property only
- Conducts mountain rescue operations
- Acts as the command center for coordinating all mountain rescue fieldwork
- Coordinates any incident/command situation (i.e., plane crashes, hostage negotiation situations)
- Investigates miscellaneous complaints:
- Suspicious persons
- Noise complaints
- Hazards (i.e., snow slides, floods, etc.)
- Responds to individual requests for service:
- Missing persons
- Emergency messages
- Welfare checks
- Lost and found reports
- Staff a full-time juvenile officer