The Middlesex County Sheriff's Office is a law enforcement agency

Law enforcement agency

In North American English, a law enforcement agency is a government agency responsible for the enforcement of the laws.Outside North America, such organizations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police while others have other names In North American...

 for Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Middlesex County, Massachusetts

-National protected areas:* Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge* Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge* Longfellow National Historic Site* Lowell National Historical Park* Minute Man National Historical Park* Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge...

, United States. The agency's primary responsibility is oversight of the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica, Massachusetts

Billerica, Massachusetts

Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...

 and the Middlesex Jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

. The office of sheriff was created in 1643 with the establishment of Middlesex County.

Middlesex County sheriffs

This is a list of current and former Sheriffs for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Capt. Timothy Phillips	1692–1702
Capt. Samuel Gookin	1702–1714
Col. Edmund Goffe	1714–1717
Samuel Gookin(2nd term)	1717–1729
Samuel Dummer	1729–1731
Richard Foster, Jr.	1731–1764
Col. David Phips	1764–1775
Col. James Prescott	1775–1781
Col. Loammi Baldwin Loammi Baldwin Colonel Loammi Baldwin was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War....	1781–1794
Maj. Joseph Hosmer	1794–1808
Gen. William Hildreth, Jr.	1808–1813
Gen. Nathaniel Austin, Jr.	1813–1831
Benjamin Franklin Varnum	1831–1841
Col. Samuel Chandler	1841–1851
Fisher Ames Hildreth	1851–1853
John Sheppard Keyes	1853–1859
Charles Kimball	1859–1879
Eben Winslow Fiske	1879–1883
Henry Greenwood Cushing	1883–1899
John Robert Fairbain	1899–1934
Joseph M. McElroy	1934–1947
Loring R. Kew	1947-1947
Louis E. Boutwell	1948–1949
Howard W. Fitzpatrick	1949–1970
John J. Buckley	1970–1980
Edward F. Hennebury, Jr.	1980–1984
John J. McGonigle	1985–1994
R. Bradford Bailey	1994–1996
James DiPaola James DiPaola James Vincent DiPaola was county sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from 1996 until his death in 2010. He had served as a Malden police officer for 18 years and was a Massachusetts state representative from 1993 to 1996. On November 26, 2010, DiPaola committed suicide...	1996–2010
John Granara John Granara John Granara is an American attorney who is the former chief legal counsel to the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office. He served as Special Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts following the resignation and suicide of Sheriff James DiPaola. Granara had been the chief legal counsel to the...  (acting)	2010–2011
Peter Koutoujian Peter Koutoujian Peter J. Koutoujian is an American politician who is the current Sheriff of Middlesex County, Massachusetts and a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives....	2011 - Present

Training

All Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff recruits go through a rigorous 21-week training academy to prepare themselves as corrections officers of the county. At the academy, the cadets are taught subjects such as criminal law, foreign language skills, communication skills, disorder management, etc. Also, every recruit is brought to the Massachusetts Fire Academy in Stow, MA for a day to learn the techniques and some tips on firefighting to use if a fire was ever set in one of the jails.

See also

• List of law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts

External links

• Official website of the Middlesex Sheriff's Office