Established in 1856, Tehama County Sheriffs Office is headquartered in Red Bluff, Calif. The organization provides law enforcement and crime prevention services. It offers a variety of services, such as patrolling, maintenance, investigations and prisoner transportation. It operates patrol, civil and records divisions. Tehama County Sheriffs Office has an operations division that specializes in dispatch and search and rescue services. The organization responds to emergency and nonemergency calls for service and also arrests offenders. It operates a jail that houses more than 200 sentenced and presentenced inmates. In addition, the organization provides nursing care, marijuana and other narcotics eradication programs and tactical operations-related services. Tehama County Sheriffs Office also operates an emergency service department that performs evacuations and conducts site assessments during floods, fires, and chemical and hazardous material spills throughout California.