Middlesex County Sheriff's Office | |
Abbreviation | MSO |
Agency overview | |
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Formed | 1692 |
Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
Jurisdictional structure | |
Operations jurisdiction* | State of Massachusetts, USA |
Legal jurisdiction | County of Middlesex, Massachusetts |
General nature | |
Operational structure | |
Headquarters | Medford, Massachusetts |
Sheriff responsible | Peter Koutoujian |
Facilities | |
Lockups | 2 |
Patrol Vehicles | Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor |
Boats | 1 |
Footnotes | |
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. | |
The Middlesex County Sheriff's Office is a law enforcement agency for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The agency's primary responsibility is oversight of the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica, Massachusetts and the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The office of sheriff was created in 1643 with the establishment of Middlesex County.
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This is a list of current and former Sheriffs for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.[1]
Capt. Timothy Phillips | 1692–1702 |
Capt. Samuel Gookin | 1702–1714 |
Col. Edmund Goffe | 1714–1717 |
Samuel Gookin(2nd term) | 1717–1729 |
Samuel Dummer | 1729–1731 |
Richard Foster, Jr. | 1731–1764 |
Col. David Phips | 1764–1775 |
Col. James Prescott | 1775–1781 |
Col. Loammi Baldwin | 1781–1794 |
Maj. Joseph Hosmer | 1794–1808 |
Gen. William Hildreth, Jr. | 1808–1813 |
Gen. Nathaniel Austin, Jr. | 1813–1831 |
Benjamin Franklin Varnum | 1831–1841 |
Col. Samuel Chandler | 1841–1851 |
Fisher Ames Hildreth | 1851–1853 |
John Sheppard Keyes | 1853–1859 |
Charles Kimball | 1859–1879 |
Eben Winslow Fiske | 1879–1883 |
Henry Greenwood Cushing | 1883–1899 |
John Robert Fairbain | 1899–1934 |
Joseph M. McElroy | 1934–1947 |
Loring R. Kew | 1947-1947 |
Louis E. Boutwell | 1948–1949 |
Howard W. Fitzpatrick | 1949–1970 |
John J. Buckley | 1970–1980 |
Edward F. Hennebury, Jr. | 1980–1984 |
John J. McGonigle | 1985–1994 |
R. Bradford Bailey | 1994–1996 |
James DiPaola | 1996–2010 |
John Granara (acting) | 2010–2011 |
Peter Koutoujian | 2011 - Present |
All Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff recruits go through a rigorous 21-week training academy to prepare themselves as corrections officers of the county. At the academy, the cadets are taught subjects such as criminal law, foreign language skills, communication skills, disorder management, etc. Also, every recruit is brought to the Massachusetts Fire Academy in Stow, MA for a day to learn the techniques and some tips on firefighting to use if a fire was ever set in one of the jails.