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The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office has provided police services/law enforcement services to Brandon Township since 1976.

• The prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the general criminal and traffic laws of the State of Michigan, as provided by state statutes and Township ordinances
• Road patrol
• Criminal apprehension
• Supervision of Sheriff's Deputies
• Responding to matters concerning public safety (auto theft, arson, narcotics, crisis response, crash reconstruction, K-9, identity theft, and crime scene response), a breach of the peace, traffic crashes, and deer/car accidents
• All other governmental law enforcement functions that are authorized by law

The law enforcement services will cost $3.95 per $1,000.00 of taxable value on all taxable property. If your house is worth $400,000.00 ($200,000 taxable value), you will pay less than $800 per year

Under the current contract with Oakland County, the Township is provided with: one lieutenant, one detective sergeant, nine deputies, one school resource officer, and one detective.

The contract for law enforcement services with Oakland County provides for the provision of a School Resource Officer (“SRO”) for the Brandon School District. The SRO is a Sheriff’s Deputy who is designated to perform law enforcement services primarily on school premises. The SRO also attends numerous other school events and acts as a liaison between families, the courts, and school.

The Sheriff’s Office reports Year End Activity for Brandon Township annually. This Report contains various information including the number and types of calls for service. The calls for service for the past four years are:

• 2022: 11,810
• 2023: 14,214
• 2024: 13,166
• 2025: 8,968

For 2024 and 2025 the average response time for a call for law enforcement services was about 5 minutes.

A Sheriff’s Office Substation provides the following benefits to residents:

• A specific location within the Township to report criminal activity, file a police report, and seek law enforcement services;
• Reducing response time for service calls within the Township;
• Firearm registration; and
• A specific location to drop off unused prescription drugs.

Sometime in the near future, the Sheriff’s Office training center located at 300 South Street (the former Brandon Fletcher Intermediate School) will be moving to a more central location in the County. 300 South Street is not owned by Brandon Township and thus cannot be sold by the Township. This property is owned by a private individual and leased to Oakland County as a training center.