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