General Info

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office works for the maintenance of social order and provides various law enforcement services to the citizens of Lafayette Parish in Louisiana. The office maintains a correctional center that handles the housing and reintegration of offenders with the use of institutional structure and appropriate programming. The center offers booking, identification and inmate housing services to local municipalities. The correctional center also provides counseling and religious services. The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office operates a training center that offers classes to office personnel and general public. The office provides a victim services program. It additionally operates a community services unit that offers crime prevention solutions.