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Rhode Island law enforcement agencies: 49 are on record with the FBI. 48 of them (98%) report crime data; 1 have never filed a return.

49Agencies

48Reporting to the FBI

1Never reported

98%Reporting rate

Federal funding

$32.2m awarded to recipients in Rhode Island under the main federal policing programmes since October 2019. Recipients are usually cities rather than police departments, so this is reported for the state as a whole — why there is no per-agency figure.

Programme	Awarded	Awards
COPS Hiring Program	$19.9m	41
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant	$10.4m	72
DNA Backlog Reduction	$1.9m	4

FBI reporting participation

This is a state-level figure published by the FBI, not a per-agency one — it counts how many agencies across Rhode Island submitted crime data to the FBI in a given year. There is no per-agency participation file in the FBI’s bulk data, so this cannot be attributed to any single agency.

50Agencies on file, 2025

47Submitted data (94.0%)

47NIBRS participants (100.0%)

1,113,108Population covered by NIBRS submitters

Year	Total agencies	Submitted data	NIBRS	Population covered
2025	50	47 (94.0%)	47 (100.0%)	1,113,108
2024	50	48 (96.0%)	48 (100.0%)	1,110,883
2023	50	49 (98.0%)	48 (98.0%)	1,094,548
2022	50	49 (98.0%)	48 (98.0%)	1,092,311
2021	50	47 (94.0%)	47 (100.0%)	1,094,546
2020	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,056,100
2019	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,058,329
2018	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,056,281
2017	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,058,595
2016	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,055,380
2015	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,055,254
2014	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,054,130
2013	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,050,471
2012	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,049,246
2011	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,050,252
2010	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,051,516
2009	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,052,173
2008	50	49 (98.0%)	47 (96.0%)	1,049,774
2007	49	48 (98.0%)	46 (96.0%)	1,056,809
2006	49	48 (98.0%)	46 (96.0%)	1,066,573
2005	49	48 (98.0%)	45 (94.0%)	897,755
2004	49	48 (98.0%)	35 (73.0%)	876,930
2003	49	48 (98.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
2002	49	48 (98.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
2001	49	48 (98.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
2000	56	48 (86.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1999	54	46 (85.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1998	54	46 (85.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1997	54	45 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1996	54	46 (85.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1995	54	45 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1994	54	45 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1993	54	45 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1992	53	44 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1991	53	44 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1990	53	43 (81.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1989	53	43 (81.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1988	53	44 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1987	54	45 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1986	54	44 (81.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1985	54	45 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1984	54	45 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1983	54	43 (80.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1982	54	44 (81.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1981	54	46 (85.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1980	53	43 (81.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1979	53	44 (83.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1978	53	42 (79.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1977	52	42 (81.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1976	51	41 (80.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1975	51	41 (80.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1974	51	41 (80.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1973	51	44 (86.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1972	51	41 (80.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1971	51	42 (82.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1970	49	41 (84.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1969	40	31 (78.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1968	40	31 (78.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1967	40	31 (78.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1966	39	30 (77.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1965	39	30 (77.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1964	39	30 (77.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1963	34	31 (91.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1962	34	30 (88.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1961	34	32 (94.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0
1960	34	25 (74.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0

Workforce over time

Sworn officers reported to the FBI each year by agencies in Rhode Island, with the number of agencies that filed a return that year shown alongside. That reporting base changes year to year, so a rising officer count here can simply mean more agencies reported, not that more officers were hired. The rate is per 1,000 people in the population those reporting agencies themselves cover, not a Census population for the whole state.

Year	Officers	Population covered	Per 1,000	Reporting agencies
1960	1,279	724,134	1.77	19
1961	1,333	762,899	1.75	24
1962	1,083	636,437	1.70	21
1963	1,074	643,890	1.67	21
1964	1,241	747,433	1.66	22
1965	1,304	749,000	1.74	21
1966	1,272	728,744	1.75	20
1967	1,167	661,482	1.76	19
1968	1,225	684,732	1.79	21
1969	1,212	667,311	1.82	20
1970	1,437	838,624	1.71	28
1971	1,675	950,966	1.76	36
1972	1,720	940,268	1.83	30
1973	1,697	955,046	1.78	34
1974	1,753	919,836	1.91	35
1975	1,812	914,165	1.98	36
1976	1,827	914,792	2.00	36
1977	1,808	922,165	1.96	36
1978	1,845	927,661	1.99	37
1979	1,842	921,085	2.00	37
1980	1,855	937,333	1.98	37
1981	1,826	943,443	1.94	37
1982	1,847	949,389	1.95	37
1983	1,829	946,417	1.93	37
1984	1,838	953,125	1.93	37
1985	1,853	958,978	1.93	37
1986	1,859	965,675	1.93	37
1987	1,910	976,138	1.96	37
1988	1,947	985,041	1.98	37
1989	1,991	993,084	2.00	38
1990	2,010	998,003	2.01	38
1991	2,036	998,536	2.04	38
1992	1,991	999,531	1.99	38
1993	2,011	994,413	2.02	38
1994	2,065	991,430	2.08	38
1995	2,056	979,421	2.10	38
1996	2,066	979,421	2.11	38
1997	2,121	976,454	2.17	38
1998	2,108	981,854	2.15	38
1999	2,114	984,862	2.15	38
2000	2,148	1,042,274	2.06	38
2001	2,137	1,052,814	2.03	38
2002	2,187	1,063,557	2.06	38
2003	2,219	1,069,852	2.07	38
2004	2,192	1,074,295	2.04	38
2005	2,231	1,069,926	2.09	38
2006	2,280	1,067,610	2.14	39
2007	2,294	1,057,832	2.17	39
2008	2,268	1,050,788	2.16	39
2009	2,183	1,053,209	2.07	39
2010	2,192	1,052,567	2.08	39
2011	2,144	1,051,302	2.04	39
2012	2,106	1,050,292	2.01	39
2013	2,081	1,051,511	1.98	39
2014	2,120	1,055,173	2.01	39
2015	2,104	1,056,298	1.99	39
2016	2,131	1,056,426	2.02	39
2017	2,160	1,059,639	2.04	39
2018	2,142	1,057,315	2.03	39
2019	2,176	1,059,361	2.05	39
2020	2,157	1,057,125	2.04	39
2021	2,158	1,095,610	1.97	39
2022	2,152	1,093,734	1.97	39
2023	2,167	1,095,962	1.98	39
2024	2,011	1,025,649	1.96	34
2025	1,909	943,419	2.02	30

Agencies

Agency	Type	County	FBI reporting
Barrington Police Department	City	Bristol	Reporting
Bristol Police Department	City	Bristol	Reporting
Brown University	University or College	Providence	Reporting
Burrillville Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Central Falls Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Charlestown Police Department	City	Washington	Reporting
Coventry Police Department	City	Kent	Reporting
Cranston Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Cumberland Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Department of Environmental Management	Other State Agency	Not Specified	Reporting
East Greenwich Police Department	City	Kent	Reporting
East Providence Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Foster Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Glocester Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Hopkinton Police Department	City	Washington	Reporting
Jamestown Police Department	City	Newport	Reporting
Johnston Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Lincoln Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Little Compton Police Department	City	Newport	Reporting
Middletown Police Department	City	Newport	Reporting
Narragansett Police Department	City	Washington	Reporting
Narragansett Tribal	Tribal	Not Specified	Reporting
Newport Police Department	City	Newport	Reporting
North Kingstown Police Department	City	Washington	Reporting
North Providence Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
North Smithfield Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Pawtucket Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Portsmouth Police Department	City	Newport	Reporting
Providence Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Rhode Island State Police: Headquarters	State Police	Not Specified	Reporting
Richmond Police Department	City	Washington	Reporting
Scituate Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
Smithfield Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
South Kingstown Police Department	City	Washington	Reporting
State Police: Hope Valley	State Police	Not Specified	Reporting
State Police: Lincoln	State Police	Not Specified	Reporting
State Police: Portsmouth	State Police	Not Specified	Reporting
State Police: Scituate	State Police	Not Specified	Reporting
State Police: Wickford	State Police	Not Specified	Reporting
T.F. Green International Airport	Other	Kent	Reporting
Tiverton Police Department	City	Newport	Reporting
University of Rhode Island	University or College	Washington	Reporting
Warren Police Department	City	Bristol	Reporting
Warwick Police Department	City	Kent	Reporting
West Greenwich Police Department	City	Kent	Reporting
West Warwick Police Department	City	Kent	Reporting
Westerly Police Department	City	Washington	Reporting
Woonsocket Police Department	City	Providence	Reporting
New Shoreham Police Department	City	Washington	Never