Alachua County Sheriffs Office, located in Gainesville, Fla., is a law enforcement agency that includes sworn deputies, detention officers and nonsworn support employees. The ACSO is divided into four departments comprising various divisions that report to the chief of staff. Its uniform patrol division offers the first line of defense against criminal activity to the citizens of Alachua County. The criminal investigations division is responsible for major crime and follow-up investigations and include different bureaus. The organization s civil bureau is responsible for civil processes and executing enforceable and nonenforceable writs. Its human resource bureau is responsible for coordinating recruitment, selection, appointment, transfer, promotions, separation and other human resource matters. The Records Bureau provides data entry for the call-in incident reporting system, centralized storage and retrieval for all incident and traffic crash reports generated by the Alachua County Sheriffs Office.