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I did not know that sherrifs are not elected in parts of the world. In the United States your lucky can get the different police organisations to work together without problems. An local example in the early-2000's the mayor of Schenectady asked the county sheriff department help the city police to cover parts of city. Some sheriff cars got there tires slash by a city police officer unhappy with the sheriff department coming into the city. But this year there talks about creating a county wide police department. http://blog.timesunion.com/schenectady/schenectady-county-police/1933/
Merging two or more different departments into one big department at the local level is not uncommon, and with the recession, some places seem to be considering the idea that ordinarily wouldn't have, or in some cases looking into the idea again after rejecting it in the past.
Personally, I wish Memphis, Tennessee would do that with the Shelby County Sheriff, and perhaps see if one or two of the smaller cities in Shelby County would be interested in a merger.
Both the Memphis Police and Shelby County Sheriff have over 2,000+ officers apiece already. If they where to merge, the end result would be one of the biggest departments in the country.