Yavapai County Sheriff's Office

The current Sheriff is David Rhodes. The YCSO has three divisions:^[2]

• Law Enforcement Services Division
  • Northern Area Command
  • Eastern Area Command
  • Southeast Area Command
  • Southwest Area Command
  • Criminal Investigations Bureau
  • Support Services Bureau
• Detention Services Division
  • Administrative Services
  • Central ID Services
  • Housing Services
  • Inmate Services
  • Transportation Services
  • Medical Services
• Administrative Services Division
  • Records
  • Communications / Dispatch
  • Information Technology

#[3]	Portrait	Name	Term in office	Length of Service	Party affiliation		Previous office
1	No image available	Van Ness Cummings Smith (1837–1914; aged 77)	May 26, 1864 – February 18, 1865	268 days		Democratic
2	No image available	Jerome Calkins (1830–?)	February 18, 1865 – January 24, 1866	340 days		Republican
3	No image available	John T. Bourke 1 (1827–1868; aged 41)	January 24, 1866 – June 30, 1867	1 year, 157 days
4	No image available	Andrew J. Moore[4] 2 (d. 1885)	July 1, 1867 – January 21, 1868	204 days
5	No image available	John L. Taylor 1	January 21, 1868 – December 31, 1870	2 years, 344 days
6		John H. Behan 1 (1844–1912; aged 67)	January 1, 1871 – December 31, 1872	2 years
7	No image available	James S. Thomas 3	January 1, 1873 – January 5, 1874	1 year
8	No image available	Henry M. Herbert 1 (d. 1895)	January 17, 1874 – December 31, 1874	1 year
9	No image available	Edward F. Bowers[4] (1838–1879; aged 40)	January 1, 1875 – December 31, 1878	4 years
10		John R. Walker (1832–1897; aged 64)	January 1, 1879 – December 31, 1882	4 years
11	No image available	Jacob Henkle	January 1, 1883 – December 31, 1884	2 years
12		William J. Mulvenon (1853–1915; aged 61)	January 1, 1885 – December 31, 1888	4 years
13		William "Bucky" O'Neill[4] (1860–1898; aged 38)	January 1, 1889 – December 31, 1890	2 years
14	No image available	James R. Lowry[4] (1850–1918; aged 67–68)	January 1, 1891 – December 31, 1894	4 years
15	No image available	George C. Ruffner[4] (1862–1933; aged 70)	January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1898	4 years		Democrat
16	No image available	John L. Munds[4] (1868–1953; aged 84)	January 1, 1899 – December 31, 1902	4 years		Democrat
17	No image available	Joseph I. Roberts (1865–1925; aged 60)	January 1, 1903 – December 31, 1904	2 years		Republican
18	No image available	James R. Lowry (2nd term)	January 1, 1905 – December 31, 1908	4 years
19	No image available	James W. Smith	January 1, 1909 – December 31, 1911	3 years
20	No image available	Charles C. Keeler (1859–?)	January 1, 1912 – December 31, 1914	3 years		Republican
21	No image available	Joseph F. Young (1871–1941; aged 70)	January 1, 1915 – December 31, 1918	4 years		Democrat
22	No image available	Warren G. Davis † (1875–1922; aged 46)	January 1, 1919 – September 5, 1922	3 years, 247 days		Republican
23	No image available	Joseph P. Dillon 1 (1864–1933; aged 69)	September 6, 1922 – December 31, 1922	116 days
24	No image available	George C. Ruffner (2nd Term)	January 1, 1923 – December 31, 1924	2 years		Democrat
25	No image available	Edwin G. Weil (1870–1935; aged 64)	January 1, 1925 – December 31, 1926	2 years		Republican
26.	No image available	George C. Ruffner (3rd Term) †	January 1, 1927 – July 23, 1933	6 years, 203 days		Democrat
27	No image available	Robert M. Robbins 1 (1882–1957; aged 74)	July 29, 1933 – December 31, 1940	7 years, 155 days		Republican
28.	No image available	Willis Butler (1910–1948; aged 38)	January 1, 1941 – December 31, 1946	6 years		Democrat
29	No image available	Orville D. Bozarth (1886–1976; aged 89)	January 1, 1947 – December 31, 1954	8 years		Democrat
30.	No image available	James G. Cramer (1914–1992; aged 78)	January 1, 1955 – December 31, 1962	8 years		Democrat
31	No image available	G.A. "Al" Ayars 2 (1921–2007; aged 86)	January 1, 1963 – August 31, 1974	11 years, 242 days		Republican
32	No image available	Robert H. Scott 1 (1931–2015; aged 84)	September 1, 1974 – December 31, 1976	2 years, 121 days		Republican
33	No image available	Harold "Curly" Moore (1928–2015; aged 86)	January 1, 1977 – December 31, 1988	12 years		Republican
34	No image available	G.C. "Buck" Buchanan[5] (1942–2019; aged 77)	January 1, 1989 – December 31, 2004	16 years		Republican
35	No image available	Roy "Steve" Waugh 2 (born in 1945; aged 75)	January 1, 2005 – June 2, 2011	6 years, 152 days		Republican
36	No image available	Scott Mascher (born in 1961; aged 59)	June 3, 2011 – December 31, 2020	9 years, 209 days		Republican
37	No image available	David Rhodes[6]	January 1, 2021 – Incumbent			Republican

Notes

1. Appointed
2. Resigned
3. Abandoned

† died in office

Since the establishment of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, eight officers have died in the line of duty.^[7][8]

• List of law enforcement agencies in Arizona
• Little Miss Nobody case

• Yavapai County government official website
• Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office at the Sharlot Hall Museum