Fleet Service Bureau
The Fleet Service Bureau oversees the purchasing, upfitting, and management of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office vehicular fleet. The Bureau is responsible for over 900 pieces of rolling stock; to include Patrol Tahoes, Specialty Tahoes, Harley Davidsons, Jail Transport Vans, Traverses, Trailers, ATVs, UTVs, and Specialty Equipment. We value ourselves as being a critical component in the agency, to ensure deputies can execute their duties and responsibilities to their maximum capabilities, ensuring the safety and well-being in Sarasota County. The Bureau is divided into three sections: Upfitting, Maintenance, and Front Office operations.

Upfitting Operations
The upfitting team prides themselves on taking a factory-built Tahoe and turning it into a complex law enforcement vehicle. During this process, the upfitting team will install the necessary equipment to turn a factory-built Tahoe into an effective law enforcement vehicle, installing the following:

• Complex Light packages
• Sirens
• Equipment Storage
• Other necessary equipment

The Team prides themselves on being innovating and coming up with complex means to enhance the capabilities of the Tahoe as a premiere law enforcement vehicle.

Maintenance Operations
The maintenance team’s primary mission is to maintain and ensure life expectancy of the agencies rolling stock. The team consists of well-skilled mechanics that possess versatile skillsets, allowing them to perform maintenance on a variety of vehicles. The team works on the following:

• Tahoes
• Traverses
• Harley Davidsons
• Trailers
• ATVs/UTVs,
• Tractors
• Excavators
• Specialty Equipment

The team does not just conduct oil changes on these vehicles to ensure their functionality. They boast themselves on conducting complex maintenance issues, such as, AC work, transmission repair/replacement, engine replacements, brakes and rotor replacement, and a variety of other complex jobs.   

Front Office Operations
The Front Office is the administrative backbone of the bureau. The Front Office handles all the complex maintenance scheduling, balancing vehicle needs with customer requirements. Additionally, the Front Office handles all the purchasing of the Sheriff’s Office rolling stock, tracking and maintaining all the maintenance records for the life of the vehicle/equipment, and handles the auctioning process when a vehicle/equipment is deemed no longer required. The Front Office also handles all the purchasing requirements from the bureau, not just during the budgeting process, but through the management of the Parts Department (a subsection of the Front Office). The Parts Department is the life blood of the bureau, handling the ordering of all supplies and required maintenance parts to ensure the vehicles/equipment can be properly repaired and maintained.