| Lane County Sheriff | |
| Patch of the Lane County Sheriff. | |
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Employees | 300 |
| Volunteers | 300 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction* | County (US) of Lane in the state of Oregon, United States |
| Size | 4,622 sq mi (12,230 km²) |
| Population | 348,550 |
| General nature | |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Eugene, Oregon |
| Agency executive | Sheriff, Thomas M. Turner |
| Facilities | |
| Jails | 2 |
| Website | |
| http://www.lanecounty.org/Sheriff/ | |
| Footnotes | |
| * Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Lane County Sheriff is the law enforcement agency led by the elected Sheriff of Lane County, Oregon, U.S. and provides police services to unincorporated portions of the county and contracts police services to some incorporated cities.
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Since the establishment of the department, eight officers have died while in the line of duty. Six died between 1903 and 1975 from gunfire, one died from vehicular assault in 1958, and one died of a heart attack in 1979.[1][2]