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COURT AND SPECIAL SERVICES

 The Summit County Sheriff’s Office Court and Special Services Bureau is a component of the Administration Division and reports directly to the Assistant Sheriff, Chief of Administration.  The Court and Special Services Bureau is supervised by one lieutenant, two sergeants and one civilian supervisor.  The bureau is comprised of a total of 52 deputies and 12 civilian employees.  There are four processing units: Civil, Warrants, Convey and Court Services. 

 Civil Unit:  The Civil Unit is responsible for all mortgage foreclosures and delinquent tax sales.  The Service & Return Unit and Foreclosure Unit are part of Civil processing.  The Service & Return Unit processes and executes prompt service and return of all common pleas court papers within Summit County.

 

The following are statistics for the Foreclosure Unit and Service and Return Unit:

 

                                            STATISTICS

        2007          

Number of Documents Processed

by the Civil Office                                                                  

 

40,702

Sheriff’s Sales Scheduled                                                                                          

3,822

Sheriff’s Sales Total $ Sold                                             

$148,345,533.45

 

Warrants Unit:  The Warrants Unit’s primary responsibility is to serve current and outstanding warrants within Summit County.  This unit assists in transporting apprehended prisoners to Summit County from other Ohio jurisdictions when an active warrant exists.

The Warrants Unit detectives participate in the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF), a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement unit.  The goal of the NOVFTF is to protect of the citizens of this county by apprehending persons with outstanding warrants for violent crimes.

 

                                            WARRANTS

         2007

Fugitives Apprehended (out of state warrant)

73

Arrests by NOVFTF

910

Fugitive Extraditions (Summit Co. warrant arrested out of state)

77

 

Convey Unit:  The Convey Unit is responsible for the scheduling and transportation of sentenced prisoners to and from various state institutions throughout Ohio.

 

                                            CONVEY

         2007

To / From Correctional Institutions

2186

To / From Juvenile Correctional Institutions

262

  

Court Services:  The Court Services deputies serve the twelve Common Pleas Judges (eight General Division, two Domestic Relations, one Probate Court, and one Juvenile Court ).  The primary responsibility of a deputy assigned as Court Services Deputy is to transport prisoners to and from the jail and other specified facilities in a timely and safe manner.  There are a total of 26 Court Service deputies assigned at the Common Pleas Court and three at the Juvenile Division Court.  The court deputies also provide service to three municipal courts within the jurisdiction of Summit County.

 

PRISONER TRANSPORTATION BY COURT ORDER:

 

                                           PRISONER TRANSPORTS

         2007

Common Pleas Court

9403

Other Destinations

217

New Prisoners (taken into custody at court hearing)

476

CCTV

2996

TOTAL

13,092

 

Beginning in the year 2000, the Sheriff’s Court and Special Services Bureau had the additional responsibility of providing security at each entrance of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas. The tables below provide a statistical overview and comparison of the security metal detector stations, incident reporting, and prisoner transportation.

 

At the courthouse security metal detector stations the following items were prevented from entering the courthouse:

 

                                            SURVEILLANCE

         2007

Edged Weapons

1251

Chemical Agents

117

Miscellaneous*

1386

TOTAL

2754

* Miscellaneous category includes items that are not illegal, but are inappropriate to be carried into the courts.

 

COURTHOUSE DEPUTIES INCIDENT REPORTS:

 

                                            INCIDENT

         2007

Medical Incident Reports

21

Arrests

64

Miscellaneous

42

TOTAL

127

 

 

 


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