Burlington County Sheriff's Department
The Burlington County Sheriff’s Department is the principal law enforcement agency in Burlington County, New Jersey. The department is headed by a sheriff elected to a three-year term. The sheriff is Jean E. Stanfield. She was first elected in 2001.[1]
The department is headquartered in the Main County Complex in Mount Holly, New Jersey.[1] It is a member of the New York-New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force.[2]
Organization
The department has an Operations Division and a Courts Division.
The Operations Division is headed by an undersheriff and includes Sheriff, Undersheriff, and Sheriff’s Officer Chief. The division is split into a Warrants Unit and a Courts Division
The Courts Division is headed by an undersheriff and includes a sheriff’s officer, a lieutenant, four sergeants and forty-seven officers. This section provides security to the courts and runs the Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team, a Warrant Unit and a Community Policing Unit. The Warrant Unit includes the department’s canine unit.[1]
Sheriffs
- Mahlon Budd 1807-1810
- William Woolman (sheriff) 1810-1813
- Samuel Haines 1813-1816
- William Woolman (sheriff) 1816-1819
- Samuel Haines 1819-1822
- Joshua Earl 1822-1825
- William Norton Shinn 1825-1828
- Joseph H. Clark 1828-1830
- Joshua Hollingshead 1830-1833
- John W. Fenmore 1833-1836
- Samuel Brown (sheriff) 1836-1839
- Isaac Hilliard 1839-1842
- Joseph Kirkbride 1842-1845
- Charles Collins (sheriff) 1845-1848
- Abraham Gaskill 1848-1851
- William H. Pancoast 1851-1854
- Samuel Atkinson Dobbins 1854-1857
- John D. Thompson (sheriff) 1857-1860
- Samuel T. Leeds 1860-1863
- William C. Lippincott 1863-1866
- John B. Hankinson 1866-1869
- Charles S. Kimble He died in office. His son served his unexpired term 1869-4/9/1872
- Henry B. Kimble 4/9/1872 - 5/14/1872
- David L. Hall 1872-1875
- George P. Conover 1875-1878
- Benjamin F. Lee (sheriff) 1878-1881
- Nathan W.C. Hayes 1881-1883
- Edward Emley 1883-1887
- George Harbert 1887-1890
- Charles Shinn 1890-1893
- William Townsend (sheriff) 1893-1896
- Joseph Fleetwood 1896-1899
- Charles R. Fenton 1899-1902
- Joseph Bower (sheriff) 1902-1905
- John Norcross 1905-1908
- William Worrell 1908-1911
- John Jordan (sheriff) 1911-1913
- William Stecher (sheriff) 1913-1917
- A. Engle Haines 1917-1920
- Edward H. Flagg 1920-1923
- Joseph B. Fleetwood Jr. 1923-1926
- A. Engle Haines 1926-1929
- Roscoe C. Shinn 1929-1932
- George N. Wimer 1932-1935
- John M. Chant 1935-1938
- E. George Furth 1938-1941
- Raymond Johnson (sheriff) 1941-1944
- Benjamin Paul Faunce 1944-1947
- William F. Parker 1947-1959
- Francis P. Brennan 1959-1986
- Henry W. Metzger 1987-1992
- Edward A. Cummings 1993-1995
- Gary L. Daniels 1996-2001
- Jean E. Stanfield 2001-Present
References
- ^ a b c "Official Web Site". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
{{cite web}}
: Unknown parameter|deadurl=
ignored (|url-status=
suggested) (help) - ^ New York-New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force official website accessed