Public Safety

Information for newly elected sheriffs coming in August.
Stay tuned!

Sheriff's Office

• Sheriffs Manual
• Sheriffs Checklist - 2022 Update
• Office of the Sheriff
• Sheriffs' Personnel Issues
• Sheriffs' Finance Issues
• Vehicle Flow Chart

Jail Administration

• Coming soon!

Drug Fund

• Drug Fund Manual
• Drug Fund Management/Disposal of Property - 2021 Update
• Confidential Funds Accounting and Flow Chart
• Inventory Disposal Control Log For Drugs
• Petition To Destroy Drugs And Drug Paraphernalia

Firearms

• Firearms Procedures (City County)
• Firearms Procedures (Drug Task Force)
• Inventory Log for Petition to Destroy Firearms
• Order for Destruction of Firearms
• Order for Exchange of Firearms
• Order of Sales of Firearms
• Petition and Order to Retain Weapons

• Best Practices - Use of Restraints on Pregnant Women in Custody 
• Center for Innovative Public Policies (CIPP) 
• APPA Career Center 
• Guidelines for Developing a Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee 
• Guidelines for Developing LGBTI Policy in Jails 
• National Jail Leadership Command Academy (NJLCA) 
• PREA Jail Toolkit
• Data-Informed Jails: Challenges and Opportunities

• County Fire Protection Funding Overview 
• Overview of the FLSA Rules for Firefighters 
• Tennessee County Fire Handbook

• Emergency Medical Service Operations and County Government

Use of Force Policies

President's E.O. #13929 on Use of Force Certification

Freedom to Protest: Guidance for Managing Demonstrations in Tennessee Towns and Cities

Summary: MTAS guidance on freedom of speech, freedom to assemble and how to handle demonstrations. This is a video resource. (Created June 25, 2020; 7:07 minutes in length)

Click HERE to view this information in the MTAS knowledgebase. We present this video as information only for sheriffs and county law enforcement.