What are the responsibilities of the city?
A city has the responsibility to manage policing issues in their community and the responsibility to furnish police services to handle their calls. In order to meet this responsibility, cities have the statutory authority to create their own police department, join a joint powers police department, or contract for police services from the Sheriff’s Office.

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1. What is contract policing?
2. What are the Sheriff’s responsibilities?
3. What are the responsibilities of the city?
4. Why contract for policing?
5. Who determines the level of policing?