List of law enforcement agencies in Arizona
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This is a list of law enforcement agencies
in the state of Arizona
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Law enforcement agency
In North American English, a law enforcement agency is a government agency responsible for the enforcement of the laws.Outside North America, such organizations are called police services. In North America, some of these services are called police while others have other names In North American...
in the state of Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
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State agencies
- Arizona Department of Administration
- Division of Capitol PoliceArizona State Capitol PoliceArizona State Capitol Police is the law enforcement agency responsible for the State Capitol Mall in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Tucson State Complex.This police agency was historically under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Department of Administration...
- Division of Capitol Police
- Arizona Department of CorrectionsArizona Department of CorrectionsThe Arizona Department of Corrections is in charge of the incarceration of inmates in 10 prisons in the U.S. state of Arizona. As of April 2009, the ADC manages over 40,191 imprisoned inmates and over 7,216 inmates who have been paroled or that are statutorily released. ADC is also in involved in...
- Arizona Department of Public SafetyArizona Department of Public SafetyArizona Department of Public Safety is a law enforcement agency with its usual focus being protection of all Arizona highways. The current Director is Robert C. Halliday, a previously retired DPS commander, who began his 5-year term in February 2010...
- Arizona Highway Patrol
- Arizona RangersArizona RangersThe Arizona Rangers is an Arizona law enforcement agency modeled on the Texas Rangers. The Arizona Rangers were created by the Arizona Territorial Legislature in 1901, disbanded in 1909, and subsequently reformed in 1957. They were created to deal with the infestations of outlaws in the sparsely...
(merged with the DPS in 1957) - Agency Support Division
- Criminal Investigations Division
- Criminal Justice Support Division
- Arizona Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Is a division of the Arizona Highway Patrol
- Arizona Game and Fish DepartmentArizona Game and Fish DepartmentThe Arizona Game and Fish Department is a state agency of Arizona, headquartered in Phoenix. The agency is tasked with conserving, enhancing, and restoring Arizona's diverse wildlife resources and habitats through aggressive protection and management programs...
Regional agencies
- Arizona Gang Task Force
- East Valley DUI Task Force
- Southern Arizona DUI Task Force
- Southeast Arizona Task Force (SEATF)
County agencies
- Apache County Sheriff's Office
- Cochise County Sheriff's Office
- Coconino County Sheriff's Office
- Gila County Sheriff's Office
- Graham County Sheriff's Office
- Greenlee County Sheriff's Office
- La Paz County Sheriff's Office
- Maricopa County Adult Probation Department
- Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
- Maricopa County Attorney's Office Investigations Bureau
- Mohave County Sheriff's Office
- Navajo County Sheriff's Office
- Pima County Sheriff's Office
- Pinal County Sheriff's Office
- Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office
- Yavapai County Sheriff's Office
- Yuma County Sheriff's Office
Municipal agencies
- Apache Junction Police Department
- Avondale Police Department
- Benson Police Department
- Bisbee Police Department
- Buckeye Police Department
- Bullhead City Police Department
- Bylas Police Department
- Camp Verde Marshal's Office
- Capitol Police Department
- Casa Grande Police Department
- Chandler Police Department
- Chino Valley Police Department
- Clarkdale Police Department
- Clifton Police Department
- Coolidge Police Department
- Cottonwood Police Department
- Douglas Police Department
- Eagar Police Department
- El Mirage Police Department
- Eloy Police Department
- Flagstaff Police Department
- Florence Police Department
- Fredonia Marshal's Office
- Gila River Police Department
- Gilbert Police Department
- Glendale Police Department
- Glendale Park Rangers
- Globe Police Department
- Goodyear Police Department
- Hayden Police Department
- Holbrook Police Department
- Huachuca City Police Department
- Jerome Police Department
- Keams Canyon Police Department
- Kearny Police Department
- Mammoth Police Department
- Marana Police Department
- Mesa Police Department
- Miami Police Department
- Navajo Co Sheriff's Office
- Nogales Police Department
- Oro Valley Police Department
- Page Police Department
- Paradise Valley Police Department
- Parker Police Department
- Patagonia Police Department
- Payson Police Department
- Peoria Police Department
- Phoenix Police Department
- Phoenix Park Rangers
- Phoenix Transit Service
- Pima Police Department
- Pinetop-Lakeside Police Department
- Prescott Police Department
- Prescott Valley Police Department
- Safford Police Department
- Sahuarita Police Department
- Salt River Police Department
- San Luis Police Department
- Scottsdale Police Department
- Sedona Police Department
- Show Low Police Department
- Sierra Vista Police Department
- Snowflake-Taylor Police Department
- Somerton Police Department
- South Tucson Police Department
- Springerville Police Department
- St Johns Police Department
- Superior Police Department
- Surprise Police Department
- Tempe Police DepartmentTempe Police Department (Arizona)The "Town of " was incorporated in November 1894 and as the population increased, George Compton was elected the town's first Marshal on January 14, 1895. By 1901, law enforcement expanded with the purchase of a motorcycle to assist with enforcing the town’s speed ordinance. Growth continued...
- Thatcher Police Department
- Tolleson Police Department
- Tombstone Marshal's Office
- Tucson Police DepartmentTucson Police DepartmentThe Tucson Police Department is the law enforcement agency responsible for the city of Tucson, Arizona. TPD has a total 932 police officers compared to 960 in the 1990s. Tucson Police has suffered a great amount of budget cuts and federal funding...
- Wickenburg Police Department
- Willcox Police Department
- Williams Police Department
- Winslow Police Department
- Youngtown Police Department
- Yuma Police Department
School/College agencies
- Arizona State University Police Department
- Arizona Western College Police
- Central Arizona College Police Department
- Chinle School District Police
- Eastern Arizona College Police Department
- Northern Arizona University Police Department
- Pima Community College Police Department
- Tuba City School District Security
- University of Arizona Police Department
- Yavapai College Police Department
Tribal agencies
- Ak-Chin Police Department
- Navajo Nation Police
- Pascua Yaqui Tribal Police
- San Carlos Apache Police DepartmentSan Carlos Apache Police DepartmentThe San Carlos Apache Police Department is the tribal police agency responsible for law enforcement within the jurisdiction of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation...
- Tohono O'odham Police Department
- Tonto Apache Police Department
- Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Police Department
- Salt River Pima-Maricopa Police Department
- Gila River Indian Community Police Department
- Yavapai-Apache Tribal Police
- Yavapai Prescott Tribal Police
- Colorado River Tribal Police
- Cocopah Tribal Police
- White River Tribal Police
Federal agencies
- Hoover Dam Police DepartmentHoover Dam PoliceThe Hoover Dam Police, officially the Bureau of Reclamation Police, is a federal security police force, stationed at Hoover Dam southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. Reclamation Police Officers are stationed only at Hoover Dam. Hoover Dam was both listed on the National Register of Historic Places in...
- National Park ServiceNational Park ServiceThe National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
- National Park Service RangersNational Park RangerNational Park Service Rangers are among the uniformed employees charged with protecting and preserving areas set aside in the National Park System by the United States Congress and/or the President of the United States...
- National Park Service Rangers
- US Border PatrolUnited States Border PatrolThe United States Border Patrol is a federal law enforcement agency within U.S. Customs and Border Protection , a component of the Department of Homeland Security . It is an agency in the Department of Homeland Security that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to...
- Bureau of Indian AffairsBureau of Indian AffairsThe Bureau of Indian Affairs is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the US Department of the Interior. It is responsible for the administration and management of of land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans in the United States, Native American...
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