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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)

Census of Law Enforcement Aviation Units (CLEAU)

Collects data from all law enforcement agencies with 100 or more sworn officers that operate a fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter. Data collected includes the locations, available assets and range, personnel, expenditures, and functions of these units, as well as information related to the capabilities and resources that each could provide in the case of a national emergency.

Local Police Departments, 1997: Executive Summary and Sheriffs' Departments, 1997: Executive Summary 

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M.  EDT           BJS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1999               202/307-0784 
                      
PERSONNEL INCREASES IN LOCAL POLICE AND SHERIFFS'
DEPARTMENTS

     WASHINGTON, D.C.   Local police departments
had an estimated 531,496 full-time employees as of
June 1997, the Justice Department's Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today.  Of these
employees about 420,000 were sworn personnel
(officers with arrest powers).  Local police
employment was up by an...

Police Departments in Large Cities, 1990-2000

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS
SUNDAY, May 12, 2002 202/307-0784

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR BIG CITY POLICE OFFICERS INCREASE, STARTING SALARIES REMAIN FLAT

WASHINGTON, DC - From 1990 to 2000, police departments serving cities with a population of 250,000 or more increased their classroom and field training requirements for new officers from a median of 1,280 hours to 1,480 hours, the...

Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)

Conducted periodically since 1987, the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) core collects data from over 3,000 general-purpose, county, and local law enforcement agencies, including all those that employ 100 or more full-time sworn officers and a nationally representative sample of smaller agencies. Data are obtained on agency responsibilities, operating expenditures, job functions of sworn and civilian employees, officer salaries and special pay, demographic...

BJS FY 09 National Private Security Survey

Closing Date
The purpose of this award is to provide funding to research, develop, design, and draft three plan options for the implementation the 2009 National Private Security Survey (NPSS). The primary objective of the award is to produce project specifications for this multi-survey data collection on private security officers, which will ultimately serve as the counterpart to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Law Enforcement Management and...

BJS FY 07 2007 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics

Closing Date
The purpose of this award is to provide funding to administer the 2007 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Survey. This survey will obtain information about the personnel, operations, policies, and procedures of law enforcement agencies in the United States. Applicants are encouraged to review previous LEMAS surveys and related statistical reports from the LEMAS program, available on the BJS website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs. A...