Cochise County Sheriff's Office

Cochise County Sheriff's Office
Cochise County Sheriff's Office
	Patch of Cochise County Sheriff's Office
Abbreviation	CCSO
Motto	Leading The Way
Agency overview
Formed	1881; 143 years ago
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Cochise, Arizona, USA
	Map of Cochise County Sheriff's Office's jurisdiction
Size	6,219 square miles (16,110 km2)
Population	117,755 (2000)
General nature	Local civilian police;
Operational structure
Headquarters	Bisbee, Arizona
Agency executive	Mark Dannels, Sheriff;
Facilities
Planes	Helicopter - Geronimo
Website
	Cochise County Sheriff's Office

The Cochise County Sheriff's Office (CCSO), headquartered in Bisbee, Arizona, is a local law enforcement agency that serves Cochise County, Arizona. It provides general-service law enforcement to unincorporated areas of Cochise County, serving as the equivalent of the police for unincorporated areas of the county. It also operates the county jail system. The Cochise County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) is sometimes referred to as the Cochise County Sheriff's Department (CCSD).^[1]

Sheriffs

#^[2]	Portrait	Name	Term in office	Length of Service		Previous office
1		Johnny Behan^[3] (1844–1912; aged 67)	1881 – 1882	2 years	Democratic
2	No image available	Jerome L. Ward^[3] (1833–1913; aged 80)	1883 – 1884	2 years	Republican
3	No image available	Robert S. Hatch^[3] (1841–1904; aged 62)	1885 – 1886	2 years
4		John Slaughter^[3] (1841–1922; aged 80)	1887 – 1890	3 years
5	No image available	Carlton B. Kelton^[3] (1839–1925; aged 86)	1891 – 1892	2 years
6	No image available	Scott White^[3] (1856–1935; aged 78)	1893 – 1894	2 years	Democratic	Supervisor of Cochise County (1890–1892)
7	No image available	C.S. Fly (1849–1901; aged 52)	1895 – 1897	2 years
8	No image available	Scott White	1897 – 1900	3 years	Democratic	Clerk of the District Court of Cochise County (1895–1896)
9	No image available	Adelbert Lewis^[3] (1864–1911; aged 47)	1901 – 1904	3 years
10	No image available	Stewart Hunt^[3]	1905 – 1906	2 years
11	No image available	John F. White^[3] (1867–1947; aged 80)	1907 – 1912	5 years
12		Harry C. Wheeler^[3] (1875–1925; aged 50)	1913 – 1918	7 years
13	No image available	Guy Welch (1879–1944; aged 64)	1918 –	8 months		Undersheriff (1912–1918)
14	No image available	James F. McDonald	1918 – 1920	2 years		Street superintendent of Bisbee, Arizona
15	No image available	Joe C. Hood (1880–1960; aged 80)	1921 – 1922	2 years
16	No image available	George Henshaw (1879–1963; aged 84)	1927 – 1930	3 years
17	No image available	Fred Kenney † (1880–1931; aged 51)	1931 – 1932	2 years
Acting	No image available	I. V. Pruitt	June 18, 1932 – November 6, 1932	49 days	None	Chief deputy
18	No image available	Tom Voelker	1933 – 1934	2 years
19	No image available	I. V. Pruitt (1893–1969; aged 76)	1935 – 1952	17 years
20	No image available	J.W. "Jack" Howard (died 1959)	1953 – 1958	5 years		Undersheriff
21	No image available	Charlie Stewart	1959 – 1960	2 years		Undersheriff
22	No image available	Phil Olander (1929–2010; aged 81)	1961 – 1964	3 years
23	No image available	T.J. "Jim" Wilson	1965 – 1976	11 years	Democratic
24	No image available	Jimmy V. Judd (1933–2005; aged 72)	1977 – 1992	15 years	Democratic	Undersheriff
25	No image available	John R. Pintek	1993 – 1996	3 years	Democratic
26	No image available	Larry A. Dever † (1951–2012; aged 60)	1997 – 2012	15 years	Republican	Chief deputy
Acting	No image available	Rod Rothrock	September 18, 2012 – November 5, 2012	49 days	None	Chief deputy
29	No image available	Mark J. Dannels (born in 1963; aged 54)	November 6, 2012 – Incumbent	10 years	Republican	Police Chief of Coquille, Oregon (2008–2011)