The Frederick County Sheriff's Office is committed to providing services that are fair, impartial and effective while holding employees to the highest standards of efficiency, morality and professionalism. The Sheriff's Office is comprised of skilled dedicated professionals, striving to be proactive, rather than reactive where possible. We are responsible and accountable to each other as well as the public we serve. We believe in God, ourselves, our country, state and county. We believe in the concept of continuous improvement in all our endeavors, always striving to be the best we can be. Our community is extremely important to us. We serve the more than 250,000 citizens of Frederick County, Maryland - in close proximity to two large metropolitan cities. 30 miles to our east is Baltimore, and 30 miles to our south is Washington, D.C. Frederick County is a very beautiful, diverse, and safe county in which to live and raise a family. The Sheriff’s Office takes great pride in maintaining our community's excellent reputation for law and order and are dedicated to provide a quality and professional service to all those that live, work and travel within our jurisdictional boundaries.