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Alaska State Troopers

State Police agencyAKAST0100NIBRS since 2021LEMAS 2020Founded 1967

Not Specified County, Alaska

Serves ~730,496 residents · LEMAS survey

Crime trendsNIBRSLEMASPoliciesOpen dataPOP projects

The Alaska State Troopers, officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST), is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS). The AST is a full-service law enforcement agency that handles both traffic and criminal law enforcement. The AST is also involved in apprehending fugitives as part of the Alaska Fugitive Task Force, an inter-agency collaborative of Alaska police departments that cooperates with police agencies throughout the United States and less commonly with Interpol in apprehending wanted men and women.

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Crime & staffing trends

No snapshot trend data is stored for this agency yet. Explore its full crime and employment history directly on the FBI Crime Data Explorer, which covers UCR summary data, NIBRS incidents, and police employment for ORI AKAST0100.

NIBRS incident detail

NIBRS victims by offense · Jan 2021Dec 2024

Incident-based victim counts reported through NIBRS, from the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Aggravated Assault: victim & offender age · 4,412 victims, 3,800 offenders
Victim sex
Male2,261 (51%)
Female2,150 (49%)
Unknown1 (0%)
Victim race
American Indian or Alaska Native2,350 (54%)
White1,871 (43%)
Black or African American73 (2%)
Asian52 (1%)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander9 (0%)
Weapons involved
Personal Weapons1,311 (34%)
Knife/Cutting Instrument592 (15%)
Blunt Object579 (15%)
Handgun379 (10%)
Other278 (7%)
Motor Vehicle/Vessel236 (6%)

Top 6 of 16 categories shown.

Incident location
Residence/Home3,188 (72%)
Highway/Road/Alley/Street/Sidewalk555 (13%)
Other/Unknown119 (3%)
Lake/Waterway/Beach110 (2%)
Jail/Prison/Penitentiary/Corrections Facility93 (2%)
Field/Woods65 (1%)

Top 6 of 30 categories shown.

Victim–offender relationship
Boyfriend/Girlfriend932 (19%)
Acquaintance633 (13%)
Stranger547 (11%)
Relationship Unknown403 (8%)
Otherwise Known347 (7%)
Sibling287 (6%)

Top 6 of 27 categories shown.

Co-occurring offenses
Destruction/Damage/Vandalism of Property473 (36%)
Weapon Law Violations297 (23%)
Simple Assault219 (17%)
Burglary/Breaking & Entering86 (7%)
Intimidation63 (5%)
Kidnapping/Abduction43 (3%)

Top 6 of 25 categories shown.

Open data

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Staffing

LEMAS 2020 survey
Full-time sworn
274
Part-time sworn
0
Full-time civilian
184
Part-time civilian
0
Total FT employees
458
Operating budget
$153,784,700
Body-worn cameras: no

Source: BJS LEMAS 2020 (ICPSR) · all waves 1987–2020

Earlier LEMAS surveys
WaveFT swornFT civilianBudget
2013303198$139,072,400
1999332369
1997321358

Staffing as reported in each BJS LEMAS survey wave; wave links go to the ICPSR study pages.

FBI police employment

Employment counts for this agency are available through the FBI Crime Data Explorer.

Open data

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POP conference activity

No POP conference submissions matched to this agency in our records.

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