Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
Community & Government
2008 E 8th Ave, Tampa, FL 33605
Description
In 1845, the first legislature of Florida enacted a law stipulating that a Sheriff would be elected every two years within every county of the state.Get to know Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
In Hillsborough County, the 47 eligible voters elected John Parker, a former military captain in the Seminole Indian Wars, as their first Sheriff. In the ten years following that time, the Sheriff's Office functioned as a one-man operation. Then, as now, law enforcement was the Sheriff's business, but he was also required to clean the courthouse, plant trees, and conduct an annual census of school-age children.