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The Sheriff’s Office covers the towns of Big Sandy, Carter, Fort
Benton, Geraldine, Highwood, Loma, Square Butte and all rural
areas within Chouteau County. We have nine full time
officers and a reserve force of sixteen.
We are responsible for the investigation and prevention of crime, coroner duties, fire-warden, civil process, bailiff, search and rescue, detention center operations and emergency services response.
The law enforcement facility was built in 1986. This modern, up to
date facility houses the Sheriff’s offices, Detention facility and
the 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). From this center,
eight
certified Public Safety Dispatcher professionals take calls for
assistance including informational, and administrative calls; 9-1-1 calls
are also answered twenty-four hours a day/seven days per week.
The technology advanced system centers around Positron's Viper, the next step in modern communications. Public Safety Dispatchers are responsible for the alerting and support of the county’s nine volunteer fire departments, three volunteer ambulance services, quick response units, search and rescue, Disaster and Emergency Services, and local government; as well as interfacing with other public safety agencies from the State and federal government. 
The Chouteau County
Sheriff’s Office has been continuously in operation from the
earliest days of settlement of the County and was once responsible
for a huge portion of Northeastern Montana. The area encompasses
plains, two mountain ranges, three rivers, and several lesser creeks
and streams as well as the majority of the Upper Missouri National
Monument, just under 4000 square miles in all. Old records of
trials, sentences, and executions were maintained in ledgers and
have since been turned over to the Montana Agricultural Museum in
Fort Benton. Artifacts from those early years can be found in that
museum, as is a portion of the old jail cells brought to Fort Benton
via steamboat around 1880.
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