Milwaukee County’s goal is to enrich your life by providing essential services that meet your needs and those of your family, neighbors, co-workers and friends.
We enhance the quality of life in Milwaukee County through great public service.
Milwaukee County is home to over 950,000 people living in one of 19 communities, which range in size from the City of Milwaukee, with 595,000 residents, to the Village of River Hills, with roughly 1,600 residents.
Still a manufacturing stronghold, the region features 16 Fortune 1000 companies and thousands of others in the financial services, medical device, hospitality and retailing industries.
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Sheriff Ball
The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) maintains the county jail, provides bailiff services for the cirucit court, patrols the freeway, provides law enforcement presence at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport and the Milwaukee County Institutions Complex. We maintain the peace throughout the County.
To serve and protect everyone within Milwaukee County with fairness, integrity, and respect.
As a team we are "Commited to Service" through:
We will provide quality service through motivated, dedicated and well-trained employees. Our actions, attitude and appearance will demonstrate self-discipline, attention to duty and service to our community.
We will maintain an ethical standard of what is right and proper, free from self-interest, racial injustice or favoritism. We will be consistent, objective and just in all our actions.
We will earn and maintain the trust of our community by being personally and professionally accountable to the highest ethical and moral standards. We will conduct ourselves above reproach, mindful of justice, and with the courage to uphold these convictions.
We will treat everyone in a manner that preserves their dignity
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Looking for a rewarding and fulfilling career? We are looking for talented, dedicated and committed people. MCSO has several career tracks. You can pursue the career track that is right for you. Find out what it takes.
Deputy Sheriff
Corrections Officer
Hourly Baliff
821 W. State St., Room 107 Milwaukee, WI 53233
(414) 278-4766