Answer:
In effect the correct answer to the question: The county official most directly responsible for providing public safety is: Sheriff.
Step-by-step explanation:
A Sheriff is the county official who is the head of the police force in the county and is responsible for the security and the management of the security forces, that will guard the citizens and the property within that county. It is the sheriff who holds, by law, the right and the responsibility, as an official to enforce the laws, execute the laws and ensure that the law is upheld in all instances. If not, he is the one entrusted with the enforcement of the punishments and the actions decreed by the judicial system, against the people who infringe on the law.