Welcome To The Sheriff's Office of Will County Illinois
The Will County Sheriff's Office mission is the protection of human life, the reduction of crime, providing and maintaining a safe, peaceful environment in which constitutional rights are safeguarded.
We will provide quality services in partnership with our community, and maintain open communication to improve the quality of life in Will County.
We will promote individual responsibility and commitment through cooperation and community development.
We will commit to the highest degree of professional conduct and ethical behavior.
We are dedicated to working with the community in a problem-solving partnership, which strives for continuous improvement of our quality of life in Will County.
MIKE KELLEY
Sheriff of Will County
About the Will County Sheriff's Office
In 1836 the County of Will was formed, with a citizen appointed as Sheriff, reluctant as he was. In 2009, there are over 500 employees in one of the fastest growing counties in the country. We've come a long way from horse and buggy that took a day, and sometimes over, to travel from one end of Will County to the other.
In the 1800's, the Sheriff may have had to handle a call from horse thieving in Beecher, to labor strifes in the mines of Braidwood. To handle these two calls may have taken up to a week. Now, deputies travel from one end of the county to the next in minutes, handling numerous complaints during an eight-hour shift. From having no telephones or electric, to computers, radios and other high tech equipment at their disposal. The Will County Sheriff's Office, in its early conception, had a jail cell capable of holding 6 inmates. In 2009, the newly expanded facility can handle roughly 1000 inmates.
(815) 727-8575
https://willcosheriff.org/
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