Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Internship Paper

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The agency that I am interning with this semester is the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO). “The Mission of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is to serve, protect, and defend the community while preserving the rights and dignity of all.” The nature of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department is to assist and defend within the limitations of Hillsborough County and confirm the security and order of everyone and everything within it. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department is a well-organized program that guarantees that it’s employees are provided with the appropriate training and safety guidelines. Working with Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department has truly been a wonderful experience for me. The internship program for the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Department has been recently modified to accommodate experience in multiple fields within the …show more content…

Some of the fields that are included within the internship program now involve Department of Patrol Services, Department of Detention Services, Specialty Units (HSD- Homeland Security and CID- Criminal Investigation Division), Digital Communication Dispatch, and Child Protection Investigation Division. Some of the fields that I have experienced so far are the Department of Patrol Services and the Department of Detention Services. The Department of Detention Services includes Jail Division I which is the booking portion at Orient Road Jail, Jail Division II which is the housing portion at Falkenburg Road Jail, Jail Division III which is the transportation portion around the entire Hillsborough County, and Court Services which is at the courthouses in downtown Tampa. I also have participated in the Department of Patrol Services out of District II, which is around the USF area. Each department and division had various different assignments that we would partake in. Within the Department of Patrol Services, I rode with various different officers who take me to their designated patrol

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