Highlights
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is the largest law enforcement agency in Palm Beach County, Florida. With more than 3,800 employees and 4,300 volunteers, the department provides police services for more than 680,000 residents in the county's unincorporated areas as well as more than 120,000 residents in seven cities and towns. Deputies oversee the county jail system, provide security at the county courthouse in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach International Airport and transport inmates to and from the courthouse and local hospitals. In addition, the agency runs the county's ballistics and serology labs, serves warrants and notifies communities when known sexual predators mo...
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is the largest law enforcement agency in Palm Beach County, Florida. With more than 3,800 employees and 4,300 volunteers, the department provides police services for more than 680,000 residents in the county's unincorporated areas as well as more than 120,000 residents in seven cities and towns. Deputies oversee the county jail system, provide security at the county courthouse in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach International Airport and transport inmates to and from the courthouse and local hospitals. In addition, the agency runs the county's ballistics and serology labs, serves warrants and notifies communities when known sexual predators move in. Also under PBSO control is the military-style Eagle Academy School for troubled teenagers ages 13 to 16, who are taught to raise their self-esteem through fitness and education. The agency's helicopters patrol the county and help local police departments with high-profile crimes. The marine unit patrol enforces boating regulations in the ocean, the Intracoastal Waterway and county's largest lakes, including Lake Okeechobee. Mounted deputies help oversee festivals and major events and patrol in troubled neighborhoods. Detectives assist smaller law-enforcement agencies with homicides, fatal car crashes, internal-affairs investigations and other routine police matters. Investigators from the countywide Violent Crimes Task Force are based at the Sheriff's Office, where they work on gang-related killings and shootings, robberies and other hard-to-solve crimes. With a $370 million budget in 2007, PBSO has expanded in recent years by absorbing police departments in Royal Palm Beach, Mangonia Park, Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay. The agency controls policing in the county's entire Glades region. Ric Bradshaw took over the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office in January 2005. The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is located at 3228 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, Florida, 33406. Call 561-688-3000 or, for further information go to www.pbso.org.
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Mobile fingerprint scanners latest law enforcement technology tool
Cross Match Technologies in Palm Beach Gardens manufacturers sophisticated biometric detection systems for the military – reportedly one that was used by Navy Seals to help establish Osama bin Laden's identity after he was killed during a daring...
Tags: FBI, Laws, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Boca Raton, Criminals
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Wellington woman accidentally runs over husband
An elderly man died Sunday morning after his wife accidentally backed into him in their driveway, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. Paul Gagliani, 87, died in his front yard at the couple's Wellington Lakes home before 11 a.m., his wife...Tags: Wellington
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Alcohol abuse and flying don't mix, authorities warn this holiday weekend
A flier traveling to South Florida to attend a sobriety program drank four rum and Cokes — perhaps as a last hurrah — before causing an uproar aboard her flight and at an airport, authorities say. Shelby Carroll's subsequent arrest on...
Tags: Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Memorial Day, Transportation Security Administration, AirTran, Police Arrests
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Millions in city land hinges on Sheriff's Office merger
The city has an estimated $3,342,300 in three pieces of property it owns. With budget talks a month away, Boynton Beach faces a $6 million projected shortfall. Selling that land for the appraisal price would be a boon. Recently, the City Commission...Tags: Boynton Beach
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Tanker rollover closes Boynton Beach Boulevard at Jog Road
Sun SentinelThe Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is advising motorists to avoid the intersection of Boynton Beach Boulevard and Jog Road. According to the Sheriff's Office, a fuel tanker has rolled over and all traffic directions have been blocked off and...Tags: Boynton Beach
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Survey: Boynton residents want greater government efficiency
Recreation, parks and landscaping in medians should be the first city services slashed to fill a multimillion-dollar projected budget shortfall, said residents who responded to a survey released Monday. Faced with a tight budget and tough decisions,...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Layoffs and Downsizing, Health Insurance Cost, Public Officials
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'Do the Write Thing Challenge' luncheon focuses on bullying
On May 7 Alex Libby, one of the teenagers featured in the documentary "Bully," and professional football player Anquan Boldin offered advice to more than 200 students at the 2012 Do the Write Thing Challenge luncheon, which took place at the Kravis Center...Tags: Bully (movie), Students, Book, Middle Schools, West Palm Beach
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New crime lab helping speed DNA processing
The Delray Beach Police Department has teamed up with its counterparts in neighboring Boynton Beach and Boca Raton to fight crime through a streamlined DNA pre-screening process. According to the city's public information office, the three agencies...Tags: Human Body, Biotechnology Industry, Criminals, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach
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Former trauma patients extol treatment at Delray Medical Center
A group of former trauma patients and their families returned to the Delray Medical Center recently to thank the staff of the hospital's Level One Trauma Center for saving their lives. One of those former patients was J.B. Killingsworth, a special...Tags: Pinecrest, Hospitals and Clinics, Boca Raton, Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents
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West Palm Beach taxi driver dies
A West Palm Beach taxi driver died Tuesday, two days after he was shot in the head during a robbery, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. Madsen Paul, 48, of West Palm Beach, died at Delray Medical Center where he was taken on Sunday...Tags: Lake Worth, Theft
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Deputies seek "Dukie" for doodling at Dunkin' Donuts
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help to identify a vandal wanted for spray painting on the walls of a couple of Lake Worth businesses. It happened on March 22, around 11:46 p.m., when a surveillance camera recorded...
Tags: Dunkin' Donuts, Lake Worth
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PBSO investigates suspicious package found at headquarters
The Palm Beach PostA Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office deputy discovered a suspicious package in the parking lot outside PBSO headquarters on Gun Club Road on Sunday morning and the sheriff's Bomb and Arson Unit was called out to investigate. "We're checking it out,...
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