The Sheriff's Office, in partnership with the City Council President Darrell Clarke, are committed to distributing gun locks to gun owners in Philadelphia to promote safe firearm containment practices and prevent gun accidents, theft and misuse.

Sheriff Jewell Williams was sworn in to lead the Office of the Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia  on January 2, 2012.   In November, 2015 he was re-elected and was inaugurated for a second four-year term of office on Monday, January 4, 2016.