List of law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts

This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 357 law enforcement agencies employing 18,342 sworn police officers, about 280 for each 100,000 residents.[1]

State agencies

• Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
• Massachusetts Department of Correction
• Massachusetts Department of Public Safety
• Massachusetts Environmental Police
• Massachusetts State Police
• Massachusetts Trial Court
  • Massachusetts Court Officer

Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

County agencies

Barnstable County Sheriff's Office Berkshire County Sheriff's Office Bristol County Sheriff's Office Dukes County Sheriff's Office Essex County Sheriff's Office

Franklin County Sheriff's Office Hampden County Sheriff's Office Hampshire County Sheriff's Office Middlesex County Sheriff's Office Nantucket County Sheriff's Office

Norfolk County Sheriff's Office Plymouth County Sheriff's Office Suffolk County Sheriff's Department Worcester County Sheriff's Office

City agencies

Agawam Police Department[2] Attleboro Police Department[3] Barnstable Police Department[4] Bedford Police Department[5] Boston Police Department[6] Boston Housing Police[7] Braintree Police Department[8] Brockton Police Department[9] Cambridge Police Department[10] Chelsea Police Department[11] Chicopee Police Department[12] Everett Police Department[13] Fall River Police Department[14] Fitchburg Police Department[15] Framingham Police Department

Haverhill Police Department[16] Holyoke Police Department[17] Hull Police Department[18] Lawrence Police Department[19] Lowell Police Department[20] Lynn Police Department[21] Malden Police Department[22] Medford Police Department[23] Melrose Police Department[24] Marlborough Police Department[25] Methuen Police Department[26] New Bedford Police Department[27] Newton Police Department[28] North Adams Police Department[29] Northampton Police Department[30] Peabody Police Department[31]

Pittsfield Police Department[32] Quincy Police Department[33] Revere Police Department[34] Salem Police Department[35] Somerville Police Department[36] Springfield Police Department[37] Taunton Police Department[38] Waltham Police Department[39] Watertown Police Department[40] Westfield Police Department[41] West Springfield Police Department[42] Weymouth Police Department[43] Woburn Police Department[44] Worcester Police Department[45]

Town agencies

Abington Police Department Acton Police Department Acushnet Police Department Adams Police Department[46] Agawam Police Department Andover Police Department Amherst Police Department Arlington Police Department Ashburnham Police Department Ashby Police Department Ashland Police Department Aquinnah Police Department Athol Police Department Auburn Police Department Avon Police Department Ayer Police Department Belchertown Police Department Belmont Police Department Berkley Police Department Berlin Police Department Blackstone Police Department Blandford Police Department[47] Bolton Police Department Bourne Police Department[48] Braintree Police Department[49] Brewster Police Department Bridgewater Police Department Brookfield Police Department Brookline Police Department Burlington Police Department Canton Police Department Carlisle Police Department Carver Police Department Charlton Police Department Chatham Police Department Cheshire Police Department Chester Police Department Chilmark Police Department Concord Police Department Danvers Police Department Dartmouth Police Department Dedham Police Department Deerfield Police Department Dennis Police Department Dighton Police Department Dover Police Department Dracut Police Department Duxbury Police Department East Bridgewater Police Department East Brookfield Police Department Eastham Police Department East Longmeadow Police Department Easton Police Department Edgartown Police Department Fairhaven Police Department Fall River Police Department Falmouth Police Department[50] Foxborough Police Department

Franklin Police Department[51] Freetown Police Department Gloucester Police Department Gosnold Constables Great Barrington Police Department Greenfield Police Department Hadley Police Department Halifax Police Department Hampden Police Department Hanover Police Department Hanson Police Department Hardwick Police Department Harwich Police Department Hingham Police Department Holden Police Department Holland Police Department Hopedale Police Department Hudson Police Department Hull Police Department[52] Kingston Police Department Lanesboro Police Department Lakeville Police Department Lee Police Department[53] Lenox Police Department Littleton Police Department Ludlow Police Department Malden Police Department Manchester Police Department Mansfield Police Department Marion Police Department Marblehead Police Department Marshfield Police Department Mashpee Police Department Mattapoisett Police Department Merrimac Police Department Methuen Police Department Middleborough Police Department Millbury Police Department[54] Monson Police Department Monterey Police Department Nahant Police Department Nantucket Police Department Needham Police Department New Braintree Police Department Newbury Police Department North Andover Police Department North Attleborough Police Department North Brookfield Police Department Northborough Police Department Northfield Police Department Norton Police Department Norwell Police Department[55] Norwood Police Department Oak Bluffs Police Department

Orleans Police Department Palmer Police Department Pelham Police Department Pembroke Police Department Plymouth Police Department Plympton Police Department Raynham Police Department Provincetown Police Department[56] Randolph Police Department Rehoboth Police Department Rochester Police Department Rockland Police Department Russell Police Department Salisbury Police Department Sandwich Police Department[57] Saugus Police Department Scituate Police Department Seekonk Police Department[58] Shrewsbury Police Department Somerset Police Department Southwick Police Department Spenser Police Department Stoneham Police Department Stoughton Police Department Sudbury Police Department Swansea Police Department Swampscott Police Department Tewksbury Police Department[59] Tisbury Police Department Truro Police Department[60] Upton Police Department Uxbridge Police Department Wales Police Department Walpole Police Department Wareham Police Department[61] Warren Police Department Wellesley Police Department Wellfleet Police Department[62] Westborough Police Department West Bridgewater Police Department West Newbury Police Department West Tisbury Police Department Westport Police Department Westwood Police Department Whitman Police Department Wilbraham Police Department Williamsburg Police Department Williamstown Police Department Wilmington Police Department Winchendon Police Department Winchester Police Department Yarmouth Police Department[63]

Other agencies

Boston Municipal Protective Services Boston School Police Boston Park Rangers Cape Cod Regional Law Enforcement Council[64] Central Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council "CEMLEC" Department of Conservation and Recreation Rangers North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council "NEMLEC" Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Massachusetts General Hospital Police and Security

Massachusetts Convention Center Authority Public Safety Department Massachusetts Port Authority Police Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Law Enforcement Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council "MetroLEC" Saint Vincent Hospital Police Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council Springfield Park Rangers UMass Memorial Medical Center Police Western Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council "WEMLEC"

College and university agencies

American International College Police Department Amherst College Police Department Assumption College Department of Public Safety Atlantic Union College Security Department Babson College Department of Public Safety Bard College at Simon's Rock Security Department Bay Path College Public Safety Becker College Police Department Bentley University Police Department Berklee Police Department Boston College Police Department Boston University Police Department Brandeis University Department of Public Safety Bridgewater State University Police Department Bristol Community College Police Department Bunker Hill Community College Public Safety Department Cape Cod Community College Public Safety Department Clark University Police Department Curry College Department of Public Safety College of the Holy Cross Public Safety Emerson College Police Department Fisher College Department of Public Safety Fitchburg State University Police Department Framingham State College Police Department Hampshire College Police Department Harvard University Police Department Lasell College Police Department Massachusetts Bay Community College Department of Public Safety Massachusetts College of Art & Design Police Department Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Department of Public Safety

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department Massasoit Community College Police Department MCPHS University Public Safety Department (3 campuses) Merrimack College Police Department Mount Holyoke College Police Department Mount Ida College Police Department Northeastern University Police Department North Shore Community College Campus Police Department Quinsigamond Community College Police Department Salem State University Police Department Simmons College Police Department Smith College Police Department Springfield College Police Department Stonehill College Police Department Suffolk University Police Department Tufts University Police Department[65] University of Massachusetts Amherst Police Department University of Massachusetts Boston Police Department University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Police Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Police Department University of Massachusetts Medical School Police Department Wellesley College Police Department Wentworth Institute of Technology Office of Public Safety Western New England University Police Westfield State University Police Department Wheaton College Public Safety Department Worcester Polytechnic Institute Police Department Worcester State University Police Department

References

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See also

• List of defunct law enforcement agencies of Massachusetts