PRISONER TRANSPORT

     In the year 2000, deputies moved about 10% of the total jail population (approx.149 inmates) every day. In order to secure high risk inmates, the Division implemented plans to better move juvenile and adult inmates between the Juvenile Detention Center and the Oxbow and Metro Jails to the Scott Matheson Court Building. In the fall, we purchased a 25-passenger security bus equipped to handle the increased transportation requests of disabled prisoners. The new bus increased our bus fleet to three, in addition to our other transportation vans and passenger vehicles.

     This year, the total number of transports declined, due to the introduction of video arraignment at the Metro Jail. However, during the summer, we assisted the Weber County Sheriff's Office by moving their entire jail population from the old to the new facilities. These transports are not reflected in the following breakdown of transportation and paper processing:

Year 2000
Inmate Transports - Juvenile Court	Adults	592
	Juveniles	2,799
	Total	3,391
Juvenile Court Papers processed in incorporated cities		1,586
Juvenile Court Papers processed in the unincorporated SLCounty		336
Total number of Juvenile Court hearings		38,225
Total number of arrests at Juvenile Courts		1,080
Inmates for adult courts & to various prisons, jails, medical facilities, & misc. transports.		Total 27,944

 

CIVIL SERVICE

     State law requires the Sheriff to serve civil papers relating to judicial actions such as protective orders, judgments, garnishments, summons, writs, and subpoenas. A dangerous job, deputies have been seriously injured while serving civil papers to unwilling litigants or suspects involved in domestic violence cases; therefore, we use only experienced, well-trained deputies in this unit. The numbers of papers served were as follows:
 

Year 2000
PAPERS SERVED
	Civil Papers	14,542
	Juvenile Papers	1,922
	Total papers of all types	16,464
	Total papers per Deputy	1,415
	Total Spouse abuse	2,825
Total fees collected & turned into Salt Lake Co. Treasurer
	Civil process	$158,000.00
	Records	$ 58,000.00
	Fingerprints	$ 15,000.00
	Total	$ 231,000.00

 

COURT SECURITY

     Bailiffs serve the various courts and are sworn corrections officers who provide security in the courts and buildings housing the courts. Courtroom bailiffs assist the judges by starting each session, maintaining order, seeing to the needs of the jury members, x-ray monitoring the packages and cases of visitors and patrons, and overseeing the metal detectors which each person must pass through.

     We maintain a complete staff at the court building, with bailiffs, court security officers, civil process clerks, and transportation deputies. The magnitude of the five-story building provides many challenges, but our main challenge is to ensure the prisoners appear at the appropriate courtrooms on time and then return to the jail and juvenile detention facility.
 

Year 2000
Bailiff Statistics Summary
	Detail reports	878
	Citations	257
	Cases cleared by arrest	714
	Misdemeanor citations	44
	Booking arrests	715
	Total persons arrested	759
	Protective Orders Served	245
	Court Cases Handled	53,168
	Persons entering Court Bldg.	767,280