The Judicial
Division was re-created in November 2006 during the department
wide reorganization. Several years ago, the Judicial Division
became the Technical Division as it was expanded with a wide
range of responsibilities. After reorganizing the department,
the Judicial Division is again responsible for the activities of
the Sheriff’s Office as they relate to the judiciary business of
Sedgwick County. Those various activities are assigned to
different sections within the division and are outlined below.
Court Security
Section
This
section is primarily responsible for transporting prisoners from
the detention facility to various court appearance or other
court-ordered activities, returning them to the detention
facility, and maintaining custody and security of the prisoners
at all times. Examples of the transport activities include;
doctor appointments, funerals, and even dialysis treatment
sessions. Deputies in this section are also called to arrest
persons in courtrooms at the direction of judges.
Warrant Unit
The Warrant
Section is responsible for locating and arresting persons for
whom arrest warrants have been issued throughout the 18th
Judicial District and other jurisdictions. The members of this
section also work as a part of a Fugitive Apprehension Task
Force along with members of the United States Marshal’s Service
and the State Parole Office. In addition, this section
maintains the “Sedgwick County Ten Most Wanted” and “Felon of
the Day” listings that are distributed to the media and the
“Name That Felon” feature on the Sheriff’s Office website.
Extradition Unit
This unit coordinates with
jurisdiction in other states to arrange for the return of
persons wanted in Sedgwick County who have been arrested in the
other states. Likewise, this unit arranges for the return to
other states of persons arrested here on out-of-state charges.
In order to accomplish the mission of actually transporting the
wanted persons, the
extradition section operates the Sedgwick County aircraft. Our
pilots also may be called upon to provide transportation for
county officials to and from official functions as well as
flying investigators to distant locations to interview suspects
or others with connections to major cases, particularly when
immediacy is crucial. The use of this airplane rather than
buying tickets on commercial aircraft or driving all over the
country actually saves money for the citizens of Sedgwick County.
Civil Section
The
responsibility of the Civil Section is to serve civil process
within Sedgwick County. This consists of delivering
garnishments, divorce papers, subpoenas, notices of lawsuits,
Protection From Abuse or stalking orders, tax warrants, and
other legal papers. This section also performs certain actions
pursuant to court orders, such as evictions as well as picking
up persons named in mental and alcohol petitions, which requires
us to deliver them to the appropriate treatment facilities. The
Civil Section also has assumed the mission for performing the
sales of real estate on which mortgage holders have foreclosed.
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