Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office (Louisiana)

The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office is the chief law enforcement agency in the civil parish of Terrebonne, Louisiana. The office has about three hundred employees.[1]

Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office
Common nameSheriff's Office
AbbreviationTPSO
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionTerrebonne, Louisiana, USA
Map of Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office's jurisdiction.
Size1,080 square miles (2,800 km2)
Population113,972 (Est. 2015)
Legal jurisdictionParish (County)
General nature
Operational structure
HeadquartersHouma, Louisiana
Agency executive
  • Jerry Larpenter, Sheriff
Website
http://www.tpso.net/

Timothy Soignet, the current sheriff, took office on July 1, 2020.

Jerry Larpenter, who became sheriff for the first time in 1987, stepped down briefly in 2008, and was re-elected in 2012. He announced he would not seek re-election in October 2019.[2] The organization is headquartered at the courthouse annex in Houma, Louisiana.

The Office is organized into a number of divisions including:

  • Administration
  • Criminal
  • Civil
  • Communications
  • Corrections
  • Water Patrol[3]

ExposeDat settlements

In 2017, the parish and the sheriff's office settled a civil case brought against them by a local couple in 2016. The couple operated a web site dedicated to exposing corruption. An individual named on the site filed a criminal defamation complaint with the Sheriff's Office. As a result, a search warrant issued by a parish judge was executed by deputies at the home of the couple, whose computer equipment was seized. No criminal charges were ultimately brought against them. In total the couple received $200,000 in settlements from several parish entities including the Sheriff's Office.[4]

See also

References
  1. "About TPSO". Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  2. "Welcome!". Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  3. "Water Patrol". Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  4. "Terrebonne's Top 10 Stories of 2017". Houma Today. 3 January 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
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