The Escambia County Sheriff's Office (ECSO) or Escambia Sheriff's Office (ESO) is the primary law enforcement agency of unincorporated Escambia County and the town of Century. ECSO is headed by a sheriff, who serves a four-year term and is elected in a partisan election. The current sheriff is David Morgan.
Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Offices & facilities
- Headquarters: 1700 W Leonard St., Pensacola
- Central Booking Division: 1200 West Leonard Street, Pensacola
- Pensacola Beach (1st Precinct) Substation: 43 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach
- Big Lagoon (2nd Precinct) Substation: 12950 Gulf Beach Highway, Pensacola
- South (Warrington) Pensacola (3rd Precinct) Substation: 330 North Navy Blvd., Pensacola
- North Pensacola (4th Precinct) Substation: 97 W. Hood Drive. Pensacola
- Cantonment/Molino (5th Precinct) Substation: 5844 North Hwy 29, Molino
- Century (6th Precinct) Substation: 7500 North Century Blvd., Century
Before October 2013, the sheriff had control over the Escambia County Jail, located at 2935 North L Street, but after a U.S. Department of Justice investigation reported that the jail did not provide required minimum services and was chronically understaffed, the jail was moved under the direct supervision of the County Commissioners. In April 2014 a natural gas explosion rocked the jail, causing some to reconsider the wisdom of direct Commission administration.
History
The office of sheriff was established with the transfer from Spain in 1821. The Spanish title Alguazil was initially used for the office. Henri Peire, a former privateer and colonel in the United States army, was named the first sheriff by General Andrew Jackson.
On 23 August 1877, the notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin was arrested by Escambia County Sheriff William H. Hutchinson working with Texas Rangers Lt. John B. Armstrong and Jack R. Duncan, accompanied by nine Escambia County sheriff deputies.
In the 21st century relations between the Escambia County Sheriff's Office and federal law enforcement were occasionally strained. In 2005 under Sheriff McNesby, disagreements over the release of information in drug cases led to a monthlong stand-off between the sheriff's office and the U.S. Attorney's office, which was only settled by the intervention of three federal judges. In September 2012, the Civil Rights Division completed its report on excessive use of force by the Escambia Sheriff's Office, that together with the Department of Justice's 2013 report on the inadequate status of the Escambia jail further exacerbated relations. In February 2015 Sheriff Morgan severed ties with both the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force headed by the FBI, and the U.S. Marshall's Regional Fugitive Task Force, pulling the deputies assigned to those duties. Again the issue was one of information dissemination. In December 2015 agreement was reached with the U.S. Attorney's office in Tallahassee to rejoin both task forces.
Controversy arose in 2013 when ECSO deputies shot a 60-year-old unarmed man in his driveway.
The canines of the sheriff's office received national honors at the U.S. Police Canine Association National Police Dog Trials in October 2014, where they had the top team scores.
List of sheriffs
Television
The sheriff's office produces a television show, every other Tuesday, entitled "Your Escambia County Sheriff's Report". It is broadcast on Blab TV (Cox Channel 1006).
In 2015 the Escambia sheriff's office was twice featured on the reality program Cops.
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