Sheriff |verified| -

Ensuring security for local courthouses and serving legal documents like subpoenas, summonses, and evictions.

The Sheriff’s department is the "catch-all" of the justice system. If the city police won't handle it, and the state troopers won't handle it, the Sheriff has to handle it. Sheriff

The English colonists who settled Jamestown and Plymouth brought the office of the with them. To them, it was not an exotic title; it was standard local government. Ensuring security for local courthouses and serving legal

Each shire needed a direct representative of the crown. That representative was known as the "Shire Reeve." it was not an exotic title