<Li> In Canada, sheriffs exist in most provinces . The provincial sheriff services generally manage and transport court prisoners, serve court orders, and in some provinces sheriffs provide security for the court system, protect public officials, support investigations by local police services and in Alberta, sheriffs carry out traffic enforcement . </Li> <Li> In India, a sheriff is a largely ceremonial office in some major cities . </Li> <P> The word sheriff is a contraction of the term "shire reeve". The term, from the Old English scīrgerefa, designated a royal official responsible for keeping the peace (a "reeve") throughout a shire or county on behalf of the king . The term was preserved in England notwithstanding the Norman Conquest . From the Anglo - Saxon kingdoms, the term spread to several other regions, at an early point to Scotland, latterly to Ireland and to the United States . </P> <P> In British English, the political or legal office of a sheriff, term of office of a sheriff, or jurisdiction of a sheriff, is called a shrievalty in England and Wales, and a sheriffdom in Scotland . </P>

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