The Tulsa County Sheriff is a constitutionally elected county official. The Office of Sheriff is the oldest Law enforcement office known within the common-law system and typically is the top Law enforcement officer of a county. The Sheriff and deputies, in the performance of their duties, enforce and administer the law according to the standards of the U.S. The sheriff’s office is a full-service l
aw enforcement agency, similar to a city police department, but it operates across the entire county. The sheriff’s office is responsible for a variety of duties not typicalty handled by city police. Oklahoma is a rural state consisting of hundreds of square miles and rural roads that are patrolled by the Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff will be called upon to assist many smaller communities and cities with law enforcement. They are often called upon to provide security and crowd control at special events in the county.
