The New York State Sheriffs’ Institute provides the only statewide training programs for Sheriffs’ civil personnel in the State of New York.

Our schools include a two-week training program for entry level deputy sheriffs and civilian personnel working in Sheriffs’ civil divisions; a one-week training for supervisory personnel in those divisions, one-day “refresher” courses, and one-day training programs for Sheriffs and Undersheriffs.

Topics include:

• Introduction to civil process
• Service of process
• Service and enforcement of income and property executions
• Service and enforcement of eviction warrants
• Service and enforcement of arrest warrants
• Service of Family Court process
• Sales of personal and real property to satisfy judgments
• Service and enforcement of provisional remedies including orders of attachment and orders of seizure
• Calculation of Sheriffs’ fees
• Accounting and bookkeeping practices for Sheriffs’ civil office personnel
• Legal liability for improper collection or remission of fees collected by the Sheriff’s Office
• Supervisory control of civil division matters
• Development of supervisory policies and procedures for all civil division matters needed by civil division chiefs
• Development and review of supervisory materials needed by Undersheriffs and Sheriff