Welcome to the Rutherford County (Tennessee) Sheriff’s Office web site.

I am proud of our deputies and their dedication to making Rutherford County a safe and welcoming county for you and your families. I hope the site will allow you to gain information about our operations with 500 employees who serve you anytime, night or day.

Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh

Our main responsibilities include:

• Communications deputies receiving 911 and emergency calls and dispatching deputies to those calls.
• Patrol deputies keeping our community safe and monitoring traffic.
• School resource officers protecting children, teachers and staff at school.
• Detectives investigating and solving crimes.
• Narcotics detectives battling drug crimes.
• Judicial Services deputies guarding the courts.
• Detention deputies operating the Adult Detention Center.
• Warrants deputies arresting people accused of committing crimes and serving civil and court-ordered documents.
• Deputies maintaining records such as crash reports and crime reports.
• Property deputies preserving evidence.
• Deputies providing community services such as the Senior Citizens Awareness Network, a volunteer program to care for senior citizens, and the Sheriff’s Citizens Academy for residents who wish to know more about our operations.
• Fleet maintenance deputies keeping the vehicles running.
• Information technology staff providing behind-the-scene operations.
• Administration deputies who handle human resources and business.

We welcome your input. For more information, please contact the public information officer at

615-904-3089 or email at lmarchesoni@rcsotn.org.

-Mike Fitzhugh, Sheriff