office, which was only settled by the intervention of three federal judges. In September 2012, the Civil Rights Division completed its report on excessive use of force by the Escambia Sheriff's Office, that together with the Department of Justice's 2013 report on the inadequate status of the Escambia jail further exacerbated relations. In February 2015 Sheriff Morgan severed ties with both the federal Joint Terrorism Task Force headed by the FBI, and the U.S. Marshal's Regional Fugitive Task Force, pulling the deputies assigned to those duties. Again the issue was one of information dissemination. In December 2015 agreement was reached with the U.S. Attorney's office in Tallahassee to rejoin both task forces. Controversy arose in 2013 when ECSO deputies shot a 60-year-old unarmed man in his driveway. The canines of the sheriff's office received national honors at the U.S. Police Canine Association National Police Dog Trials in October 2014, where they had the top team scores. Before leaving office in early 2021, Sheriff David Morgan used $75,000 in office funds to commission a life-sized metal statue of himself. He said his intent was use the figure of himself saluting as an addition to the office's memorial to fallen officers. The new Sheriff Chip Simmons declined to install the statue in front of the office's main entrance. List of sheriffs Henri Peire 1821 Charles Bradford 1821–1822 William Davison 1823–1826 Charles Mifflin 1827 Henry Wilson 1828 Adam Gordon 1829 James Pendleton 1829–1830 Florencio Commyns 1830–1837 Jesse Allen 1837–1840 Peter Woodbine 1840–1842 Ebenezer Dorr IV 1842–1846 Mortimar Bright 1846 Angus Nicholson 1846–1847 Antoine Collins 1847–1851 Francis de la Rua 1851–1852 Francis Maura 1852–1854 Joseph Crosby 1854–1857 William Jordan 1857–1859 Daniel Williams 1859–1865 James B. Roberts 1865–1868 George Wentworth 1868–1870 Henry Campbell 1870 E. R. Payne 1870 George Wells 1870–1874 J. N. Coombs 1874–1875 A. M. Green 1875–1877 W. H. Hutchison 1877–1885 Joseph Wilkins 1885–1893 George E. Smith 1893–1903 James C. Van Pelt 1903–1913 A. Cary Ellis 1913–1917 James C. Van Pelt 1917–1919 Hurdis S. Whitaker 1919–1921 A. Cary Ellis 1921–1923 Mose S. Penton 1923–1932 H. E. Gandy 1932–1941 Howard L. Mayes 1941–1945 R. L. Kendrick 1945–1957 Emmett Shelby 1957–1961 Bill Davis 1961–1970 Royal Untreiner 1970–1981 J. "Vince" Sealy 1981–1989 Charlie Johnson 1989–1993 Jim Lowman 1993–2001 Ron McNesby 2001–2009 David Morgan 2009–2021 Chip Simmons 2021-Present Sixteen policemen from this agency have died in the line of duty. Television The sheriff's office produces a television