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Support Services Division

The Civil Process The focus of the Support Services Division is civil process,

Unit serves a variety of civil training, law enforcement policy development, grant acquisition
documents to include: civil lawsuits, and community outreach.
divorce papers, and various Civil Process Served
landlord/tenant court documents.
The Civil Process Unit received
4,224 documents for service in 7767 8094
2021, and achieved a service 7482
success rate of 75.33%. 5834
5455 5715
4757
There are various reasons why papers are 3615 4224
unsuccessfully served. These include reasons such as 3182
the defendant moved, would not respond to the door,
the attorney recalls the paper, the court or agency
recalls the paper, the individual couldn’t be served
before the predetermined court date. 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Received Served

Community Outreach

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office organized and/or attended
eighteen (18) public events in 2021 all designed to support the needs
of our community. Events ranged from senior awareness programs,
and youth initiatives to consumer fraud awareness. We live and work
here and understand the importance of helping create a safe and healthy
community.

These Community Outreach events were developed in a collaborative
approach to support the needs of our community partners and address
community safety, quality of life issues and improve community
communication and understanding.