LEROY D. BACA, SHERIFF
LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT

Sheriff Baca, as the elected Chief Law Enforcement Officer of Los Angeles County, commands the largest Sheriff's Department in the United States with a budget of 2.5 billion dollars. He leads more than 18,000 sworn and professional staff. The Sheriff's Department is the law enforcement provider to 40 incorporated cities, 140 unincorporated communities, nine community colleges, and hundreds of thousands of daily commuters of the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Rapid Rail Transit District. More than four million people are directly protected by the Sheriff's Department.

The Sheriff's Department also protects the largest court system in the nation. Moreover, the Department manages the nation's largest local jail system housing 20,000 inmates.

Sheriff Baca is the Coordinator of Mutual Aid Emergency Services for California Region I, which includes the County of Orange. Region I serves 13 million people.

Sheriff Baca is the founder of Public Trust Policing that includes diverse advisory councils; a Clergy Council of more than 300 ministers, pastors, priests, rabbis, imams, and leaders of every faith community. He also operates fourteen nonprofit youth centers; ten at-risk regional training centers for at-risk youth ages 10-18, and provides 27 deputies to 240 elementary and middle schools who teach 50,000 children about positive solutions to the problems of drugs and gangs. He operates one of law enforcement's largest prevention and intervention programs in the nation.

The Sheriff's Department's service area has one of the nation's lowest crime rates for a major metropolitan area. Deputies arrest more than 90,000 felony and misdemeanor suspects, as well as respond to more than 1,000,000 calls for service annually.

Sheriff Baca, a United States Marine Corps Reserve veteran, earned his Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.