Community Policing Programs offered at Snohomish County Sheriff's Office
Provides community programs that citizens can become involved with.
Provides the following services: Neighborhood Block Watch; Crime Prevention; Personal Safety Talks; Child Safety Talks; Home Security Surveys; Business Security Surveys; Fraud Prevention; Street Watch (volunteers check for speeders using radar); and Operation I.D. (fingerprinting of children for parents who wish to have them on record).
Law Enforcement offered at Skagit County Sheriff's Office
Provides a variety of community based services.
Provides the following services: Neighborhood Block Watch; Crime Prevention; Personal Safety Talks; Child Safety Talks; Home Security Surveys; Business Security Surveys; Fraud Prevention; Vacation House Watch; Street Watch (volunteers check for speeders using radar); and Operation I.D. (fingerprinting of children for parents who wish to have them on record).
Major Investigations, Special Ops & Advanced Training offered by King County Sheriff's Office's Criminal Investigations Division
Specialized police units investigate major crimes, including assault, abuse, robbery, homicide, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment.
Major Crimes Unit investigates:
- Deaths and felony assault cases (including domestic violence)
- Robbery
- Digital forensics
- Kidnapping
- Unlawful imprisonment
Responds to all child death cases within jurisdiction, including suspected Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); this is mandated by law.
Special Assault Unit:
- Investigates sexual assaults and neglect or abuse cases.
It also monitors individuals on the state-wide sex-offender registry.
Major Accident Response and Reconstruction Unit:
- Investigates fatality and serious injury accidents; also provides assistance at major crime scenes.
Polygraph Unit:
- Provides polygraph support for criminal investigations and pre-employment screening.
Fire/Arson Investigation Unit:
- Conducts comprehensive fire investigations to determine origin and cause of fires; performs criminal investigation of those fires determined to be arson.
Criminal Intelligence:
- Gathers and shares intelligence products and maintains liaison with state and local law enforcement officers.
- Collects, evaluates and analyzes incident reports of suspicious activities reported by the public and law enforcement communities in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist operations.
Criminal Warrants Unit:
- Handles criminal and material witness warrants issued out of King County courts, performs extradition and transports prisoners between jurisdictions.
Special Support Enforcement Unit:
- Enforces court ordered child support.
Civil Unit:
- Serves legal documents throughout the county, conducts evictions, and enforces orders of the court.
AFIS Section:
- Promotes public safety and contributes to crime reduction by providing fingerprint identification to criminal justice agencies throughout King County.
Community Policing Programs offered at South Precinct - Mill Creek Snohomish County Sheriff's Office
Provides community programs that citizens can become involved with.
Provides the following services: Neighborhood Block Watch; Crime Prevention; Personal Safety Talks; Child Safety Talks; Home Security Surveys; Business Security Surveys; Fraud Prevention; Street Watch (volunteers check for speeders using radar); and Operation I.D. (fingerprinting of children for parents who wish to have them on record).
Community Policing Programs offered at North Precinct - Marysville Snohomish County Sheriff's Office
Provides community programs that citizens can become involved with.
Provides the following services: Neighborhood Block Watch; Crime Prevention; Personal Safety Talks; Child Safety Talks; Home Security Surveys; Business Security Surveys; Fraud Prevention; Street Watch (volunteers check for speeders using radar); and Operation I.D. (fingerprinting of children for parents who wish to have them on record).
Oversight/Consumer Complaints offered at Washington State Department of Financial Institutions
Provides regulatory oversight and investigates consumer complaints about financial institutions and scams in the state.
Provides regulatory oversight for state-chartered commercial banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, trust companies, foreign banks, credit unions, payday loan companies and check cashers and sellers. Issues licenses to financial companies operating in Washington. Also provides oversight of mortgage brokers, mortgage loan originators, investment advisers, franchises and securities. Consumers may file a complaint after contacting the company directly and getting no positive results.
Cannot give legal advice, nor recommend attorneys.
The agency cannot pursue redress on your behalf. Contact a private attorney who can advise you of your rights.
Community Policing Programs offered at East Station - Sultan Snohomish County Sheriff's Office
Provides community programs that citizens can become involved with.
Provides the following services: Neighborhood Block Watch; Crime Prevention; Personal Safety Talks; Child Safety Talks; Home Security Surveys; Business Security Surveys; Fraud Prevention; Street Watch (volunteers check for speeders using radar); and Operation I.D. (fingerprinting of children for parents who wish to have them on record).
Workers' Compensation Fraud Prevention offered at Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Headquarters
Investigates allegations of fraud by workers, health care providers and employers.
Investigates claims of workers compensation fraud by workers, health care providers and employers.
Examples of fraud include:
- Employers not paying L&I premiums owed.
- Overcharging L&I for medical services.
- Working while collecting time-loss from L&I.
- Filing a false L&I claim or falsifying a condition.
Consumer Resource Center offered at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Works to provide consumers the information they need to understand the terms of their agreements with financial companies.
Also takes consumer complaints as well as reports from whistle blowers reporting violations of federal financial laws.
Works to provide consumers the information they need to understand the terms of their agreements with financial companies.
Also:
- Writes rules, supervises companies and enforces federal consumer financial protection laws
- Restricts unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices within financial companies
- Takes consumer complaints about financial companies
- Promotes financial education
- Monitors financial markets for new risks to consumers
- Enforces laws that outlaw discrimination and other unfair treatment in consumer finance Provides information on a wide range of topics of interest to consumers dealing with financial companies, including:
- Paying for college and student loans
- Planning for retirement
- Owning a home
- Protections against credit discrimination
- Trouble paying a mortgage
- Preventing financial exploitation of older adults
- Consumer financial challenges affecting service members and veterans
Receives confidential reports from whistleblowers who have information about companies or individuals that are violating federal consumer financial laws. Provides information on website in several languages; responds to telephone inquiries from consumers.