Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office

Sheriff Shane Nelson

The Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office serves the area outside the city limits of Redmond. In addition to patrol services in unincorporated areas, the sheriff’s office provides investigation, search and rescue, service of civil papers, animal control and marine patrol on Cascade lakes as well as operates the county jail and work-release center and issues concealed-handgun permits.

Information: 8154 11th St., Terrebonne. sheriff.deschutes.org, 541-388-6655.

Redmond Police Department

Chief Dave Tarbet

The Redmond Police Department provides policing services inside Redmond city limits. The department’s 30 sworn patrol officers, five detectives and two community-service officers and two evidence and forensics officers responded to 22,829 calls for service in 2015.

In 2013, the department joined other law enforcement agencies in Deschutes County in launching a new shared records system that allows agencies to track crimes, identify crime patterns and map criminal activity by area and type of crime, as well as lets officers write reports from their patrol cars.

Information: 777 SW Deschutes Ave., Redmond. 541-504-3400, www.ci.redmond.or.us.

Redmond Fire and Rescue

Chief Tim Moor

Redmond Fire and Rescue provides fire protection, ambulance, emergency medical and rescue services in the fire district, which includes the city of Redmond and the surrounding area. The fire department responded to 5,614 EMS and fire calls in 2015. The agency is a full-service department, providing emergency medical services (all firefighters are Oregon-certified paramedics) and ambulance and advanced life-support services as well as structural and wildland fire protection, aircraft rescue and firefighting, and swift water and ice rescue.

The department’s fire marshal and deputy fire marshal run fire-prevention and juvenile firesetter programs, conduct car-seat safety clinics, review building permits, investigate fires and organize the annual Halloween fire-safety event.

The five-member elected board of directors meets at 9:30 a.m. the second Wednesday of each month at the main station on Dogwood Avenue.

Information: 341 NW Dogwood Ave., Redmond. 541-504-5000, www.redmondfireandrescue.org.