San Andreas Sheriff's Office

     In the the 1920s the small State of San Andreas, with the growing settlement of Los Santos and surrounding areas, needed a second law enforcement agency (alongside the Los Santos Police Department) to serve and protect the rest of the state's residents, stretches of road, wilderness, and to provide a more efficient state-wide court system.

     In 1926, the State of San Andreas Sheriff's Office was created with only 11 deputies at hand under the command of 54-year-old Sheriff Dwayne Harlan. (1926 - 1942) The first station was located on Algonquin Boulevard, Sandy Shores (demolished 1972) but was relocated to Alhambra Drive in 1968 and was known as "Station No. 1" until it was renamed number two in 1975. Other stations had popped up over time such as the new station number one (Sheriff's Headquarters, Innocence Blvd., Los Santos - Est. 1975) and station number three (Paleto Blvd., Paleto Bay - Est. 1982) as well as a prison (San Andreas Sheriff's Office Department of Corrections, Boilingbroke Penitentiary, Route 68, Grand Senora Desert - Est. 1993) and an airport security office. (San Andreas Sheriff's Office Airport Detail, LSIA, Los Santos - Est. 1997)

     The State of San Andreas is one of two states in the United States of America to not have a state highway patrol. (The other being Hawaii) It was proved that San Andreas was too small for a highway patrol agency (Instead, the SASO developed the Traffic Enforcement Unit or TEU in 1984.) and way too small for a multi-county sheriff system. The SASO patrols both Los Santos County and Blaine County together as one.

     Today, the San Andreas Sheriff's Office has 100+ personnel including administration, correction officers and patrol deputies. It is headed by Sheriff Cletus Jeffry (1996 - 2016) who is expected to retire this year. 

     To support the famous San Andreas Sheriff's Office tradition, SASO vehicles today are still painted with the original light blue color with a classic white roof.