The San Diego County Sheriff's Alpine Station on Alpine Blvd in Alpine provides law enforcement for a jurisdiction spanning approximately 3,000 square miles of eastern San Diego County, from the Cuyamaca Mountain foothills to the Cleveland National Forest boundary. The station oversees six satellite substations — Borrego Springs, Boulevard, Campo, Julian, Pine Valley, and Ranchita — and maintains cooperative relationships with community organizations such as Alpine VFW Post 9578 on Tavern Road, whose members support local public safety initiatives. A staff of 27 sworn officers and four support personnel patrol the communities of Alpine, Crest, Harbison Canyon, and Blossom Valley with community-oriented policing strategies and comprehensive crime analysis. The station's Volunteer Sheriff's Patrol conducts vacation checks and homebound-citizen visits, and The Alpine Club on Alpine Blvd hosts community meetings where crime prevention specialists present on fraud awareness, residential security, and neighborhood watch protocols. Detectives investigate all general crime cases before forwarding files to the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, with the Crime Prevention Unit coordinating programs at across the East County service area.